Word: twistings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...consumers. Color televisions are on sale for $680, along with locally manufactured refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, even keyboard organs. With prosperity has come more time for leisure. In one factory auditorium, an eight-piece orchestra plays nightly, and couples tentatively attempt fox-trots, rumbas, two-steps, even the twist. Says one disbelieving onlooker: "You could not imagine such a thing as this only a couple of years ago. These people were in cell meetings." --By Spencer Davidson. Reported by Edwin M. Reingold/Chongqing
...household and began to explore conservatism on her own at Cornell. There she discovered both liberals, who made her more conservative, and feckless conservatives in the "cigar-smoking, martini-drinking, oh-I-get-drunk-all-the-time libertarian mode," who made her more socially conservative. But there was a twist. In 1984, in an article for the conservative Cornell Review, Coulter attacked its editor for writing, "Statistics are like bikinis: what they show is important, but what they conceal is vital." "The message is clear," Coulter responded in her article. "The vital parts are the breasts and the vagina...
...they had to watch, but the Yanks paid the Sox due respect. Yes, sure, there was an aspect of they-have-what-we-want-and-so-let's watch-to-whet-our appetite to it, but by and large it was a noble gesture. The Sox, in another nice twist, were introduced in the order in which they longest-ago signed with the team, and so the retired Ellis Burks, a rookie with the team 18 seasons ago and an aging vet who rejoined the club in '04, went first, followed by Wakefield, whose tenure stands at ten years. Wakefield...
...path continues to fork and also to twist and climb...
...discontents; the boy, his bow and arrow taut, seems very much the noble savage painted in jungle pastels. In Deliverance, Zardoz, Exorcist II: The Heretic and Excalibur, Boorman set these same elemental antagonists, intellect and instinct, on a collision course. Here, though, he has added a crucial twist. Tomme (Charley Boorman) is the man's son, abducted by a Brazilian Indian tribe a decade earlier and raised as a wild child. For Tomme, his father (Powers Boothe) has existed only in the still pools of memory; now he is a dream patriarch for this young Tarzan...