Word: twistings
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...treated soberly - and was, in a half a dozen or more Cannes films this year - but that wouldn't suit Almodóvar's cine-showmanship. The story spins backward four times before landing on its subject, then skips assuredly from comedy to horror, with a pretty plot twist at the end. It's all prime Pedro. Like Bad Education, House of Flying Daggers marks a relaxation, but not a reduction, for a world-class director. Hero, Zhang's kung fu classic of 2002, was a meditative, superbly color-coded parable of love and death. Daggers is a jauntier piece...
...Kennedy's West Wing, but otherwise there is nothing particularly revelatory or shocking here. And there's something a little surreal about the book's lack of perspective. Kennedy was a President who confronted the unthinkable in many forms, be it nuclear annihilation or Oleg Cassini dancing the twist with Robert McNamara. Grace and Power gives them equal weight. --By Lev Grossman
SEARCHALERT Locks allow security agents to open your luggage even if you have locked it. New twist: a green button turns red to let you know it has been searched...
...album’s ten tracks are surprisingly short and direct as well—one gets the impression that a lot was cut to trim the album to its best elements. The subject material is straightforward hip-hop turf: hustling, guns and women, all delivered with Murs slight twist. “H.U.S.T.L.E.” describes the challenge of making his way in the rap game; he pays an ambivalent tribute to gansta culture on “Walk Like A Man” and protests his honestly dirty intentions...
...people marching in Rome on Thursday. They released a statement on al-Jazeera Friday saying they were pleased with the march and would not harm the Italians. But they added a new condition for release: Italy must convince the Kurds to let go Iraqi prisoners. This is a new twist in the tactics of terror - going over the heads of enemy governments to negotiate directly with the people - and it adds another dimension to the threat facing Italy and other members of the increasingly shaky U.S.-led coalition. The insurgents seem to be following the example of the March...