Word: twistings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...start. I've known since last November, when I signed here, what they brought me here for. If I don't go out and do what I've done in past postseasons, then anything I've done from April to September is meaningless. That's certainly a different twist to it, but you know what? That's life...
Kids participate in one half-hour study at a time. First, they watch a screen with animation of a man moving his arm up and down, like he’s waving. Then the cartoon is switched and the man begins to bend and twist his arm in an impossible motion, sort of like Stretch Armstrong. Scientists assume that children will lose interest in the familiar waving gestures first because they understand the universal wave of “hello.” Undergraduates time the duration of the children?...
...hardest, but maybe we will find that they’ll rejoin sometime.” Matt S. Salvatierra ’05 is sitting on his bed in Kirkland’s A entryway, crooning the song he wrote after finally getting over a relationship. His feet twist around each other and his toes curl into his carpet as he concentrates. “I feel like the best songs are written about real experiences,” Salvatierra explains. And a touch of Frostian imagery never hurts...
...Sydney, Australia, a 22-year-old industrial designer has invented a pretty and practical high heel--with a twist, literally. The result of Sophie Cox's senior-year dissertation on the physical effects of wearing heels was the Convertible, a shoe with interchangeable heels that twist off: a high one for evening and a kitten heel for walking around during the day. Convertibles aren't on the market yet, but Cox hopes to see the first models within a year...
...film's hero--make that heroid--is Batou, a cyborg detective with a face slashed out of marble and a platitude for every plot twist. "No matter how far a jackass travels," he muses, "it won't come back a horse." Batou encounters lots of fantastic creatures (like the crustaceous Crab Man), elegant vistas (pagoda skyscrapers) and bizarre machines (a plane that resembles both a dragon and Groucho Marx, with a cigar as his nose). It's smart, spectacular, luscious picturizing...