Word: twistings
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...Waters' "Hairspray" was as much tribute to the early 60s as parody of it. He loved the old songs, loved the dances that accompanied them - the Madison, the Twist, the Continental, the Fly, the Roach - and in his film reproduced a dozen of them, with an archaeologist's fidelity. For the Broadway version Waters is listed as "consultant"; he claims he was much too bossy ever to collaborate. He also knew that the shoe would have "new" songs; the pastiche conceit embraced not only the ransacking of tacky 50s-60s modes of decor, coiffure and couture but the rephrasing...
...Most of the songs evoke, or quote, old favorites. "The Nicest Kids in Town" echoes both "The Peppermint Twist" and "Mony Mony," cutely tweaked to "Money money!" The sextet "Mama I'm a Big Girl Now" is the Crystals' "He's Sure the Boy I Love" (the saxophones primmer than Nino Tempo's on the Spector singles) with a twist of "Twist and Shout." Tracy's ballad "I Can Hear the Bells" summons the ghosts of white-girl singers and the ultimate white-girl tribute song, Neil Sedaka's "Calendar Girl"; instead of the months counted off, we hear "Round...
...says Iraz Karan, 27, a Berlin-born Alevi whose parents come from Turkey. "The traditions that became Turkish Alevism exist all over the Arab world and are very diverse." Alevis follow the Shi'ite path laid down by Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law Ali, but with a twist. "Orthodox Shi'ites say the entire Koran is the word of God," says Metin K??k, director of the Berlin center. "But we differentiate between Muhammad's inspired verse and the rules he came up with later on, when he was an administrator and warrior." That means no mosques, no five...
...Zhang braved a Siberian winter to cross the frozen Heilongjiang River and seek refuge in the Soviet Union, nearly dying of exposure. His experience with the KGB, which denied the fugitive entry into their crumbling empire but allowed him to sneak back into China undetected, is a plot twist worthy of a thriller. Much of Escape from China reads like a novel, with the author as the resourceful hero whose struggle epitomizes the fate of the individual under totalitarianism. That Zhang has come to see his journey in religious terms?he was born again in the snows of Siberia...
...from the herd: 'Customers look for something new. The hip ones want something other than just a regular pair of boots.' The trend is more rooted in Italy than Arizona. According to Shanghai Tang's international marketing manager Joanne Ooi, buckskin, fringes and cowboy boots are the latest twist on the 'motorcycle chic' look engineered by Gucci and Nicolas Ghesquiere a few years back. 'There is a Western vibe in fashion now. (Designers) are looking to the Wild West for inspiration.' Giddy...