Word: twistings
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...same. The classic Disney thoroughfare of quaint buildings and gas streetlights has been lovingly re-created from the original theme park Walt Disney built in Anaheim, Calif., which opened 50 years ago this week. But Walt's vision of idyllic small-town America now has a surprisingly un-Midwestern twist. Inside one Victorian building is Main Street's first Chinese restaurant, the Plaza Inn, crafted as a stylish tea shop from early 20th century Shanghai. The interior has traditional landscapes of the Chinese countryside painted on the walls. The murals have been based on the Disney animated movie Mulan, which...
...TIME: The magnificent twist that Bergman runs in his characters is to make them do monstrous things yet make them, if not sympathetic, certainly pitiable. And with Henrik, I think we can see that Karen is his only link to Anna. Because the look the two people exchange before they kiss has tremendous compassion in it. And I could see that Henrik might be carried away by the memory of Anna...
...Nixon in May 1972, after the death of J. Edgar Hoover, he testified during his 1973 Senate confirmation hearings that he had been turning over FBI files on the Watergate probe to the White House. That prompted Nixon adviser John Ehrlichman to suggest famously that Gray be left to "twist slowly, slowly in the wind." In April 1973, after conceding he had destroyed papers unrelated to the scandal but belonging to Watergate operative E. Howard Hunt, he was forced to resign...
...South is still rising. MTV has ordered a reality show called Crunkville. Meanwhile, competition for Lil Jon and company is emerging out of Houston, via a hip-hop twist called screw, a smoother, less frenetic rap that slow-danced its way out of Texas last year when Lil' Flip's Sunshine became...
...discovery of the bodies was a wrenching twist for the families of the Challenger astronauts. It came as the finger pointing and recriminations inside NASA spilled into public view with harsh accusations by veteran astronauts that the space agency had repeatedly placed expediency over safety. Reeling, NASA administrators were forced to concede in congressional testimony that the shuttle program has been seriously set back, so much so that the entire space effort may require a thorough reorganization...