Word: twistings
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...implacable evil?think Kurosawa's Seven Samurai in Qing-dynasty China. While the attempts at romantic subplots fizzle and the film is paced so strangely that it feels both too long and too short, for fans of wuxia, Seven Swords will still satisfy. Every time the plot threatens to twist itself into knots, Tsui lets loose with eye-popping, inventive battles that express far more emotion than the stilted dialogue. In Seven Swords, the blade is the thing...
...transforms it into an action of love. What on the outside is simply brutal violence, from within becomes an act of total self-giving love." Still, however well-stated, this passage is not an obvious quote for a newspaper story. And though his delivery is engaging, Benedict doesn't twist and turn with emotion for the television cameras. He is, in other words, not a natural media star. Though his unique role as the only world leader with a worldwide following will continue to demand attention, it will naturally be a different kind of attention than the man he succeeds...
...spend my days trapped, sometimes for eight or 14 hours at a stretch. My captors twist. They squeeze. My skin blisters under pitiless, chafing leather straps. I’m talking, of course, about high heels and the utter agony of dealing with them all day as I hop, skip, trip, and fall my way though a summer internship at a large financial institution smack in the middle of Corporate America. Middle of Corporate America though it may be, it’s still five blocks away from my subway station...
...This is also an encouraging development for the rest of the world?but with a potentially painful twist. By moving to a currency basket, China will need to diversify its enormous portfolio of foreign-exchange reserves, which totaled some $660 billion at the end of the first quarter. Other Asian countries?also massively overweighted in dollars?should follow China's lead. The near-simultaneous announcement by Malaysia that it would abandon the ringgit's dollar peg in favor of a managed basket float confirms such a possibility. The Bank of Korea has also been itching to diversify out of dollars...
...FIZZ The latest twist in beverages: mint flavoring. Metromint has a cooling sensation, but Snow, sweetened and sparkling, reminds us of mouthwash...