Word: twistings
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TORNADO WINDS In rare cases, erratic winds within a wildfire create powerful minitornadoes that can shoot spirals of flame into the air and twist trees apart at their trunks...
...everyone is caught up in this latest twist. While Tokhtakhounov's potential mafia connections added a bit of much-needed media glamour to the cobwebbed story, Sale and Pelletier were not impressed. The cute-as-a-button pair was back on the morning program circuit Thursday, flashing their trademark grins and shrugging off the whole incident. French ice dancing pair Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat were unamused. "Everybody wants to claim a part of our victory for themselves," Peizerat grumbled to the AP. "The judges think it's thanks to them we're champions, top skating officials...
...story had a posthumous twist. Through Niazi's good intelligence work, authorities were able to find a fifth al-Qaeda man, also an Uzbek, who is now in U.S. custody. But the scene of the roadside shoot-out resembles a makeshift shrine to fallen al-Qaeda fighters. Graffiti glorifying Osama bin Laden have been painted on the rocks, and pilgrims flock to the spot in busloads. Some say they can smell the fragrance of martyrs' paradise wafting from the bloodstains in the dirt. And Niazi's father considers his son a traitor to Muslims. He refused to say the customary...
...LUCIA has a nice twist: girl stalks boy. Alternatively, you can see it as the story of a girl who, contrary to cliche, gets ruined by a book. The tome is by a handsome writer, Lorenzo (Tristan Ulloa); his fan, Lucia (the divine Paz Vega), follows him around, comes on to him in a bar and then goes home with him for some of the hottest, nakedest sex you have seen since your last European "art" film. (For the past couple of years, European movies have been raising--or lowering--the bar in this matter, without much comment...
...Thailand that's a twist. Throughout the country, and particularly in remote and rural areas, it's the police who have traditionally inspired fear. While there are plenty of honest cops, many others are corrupt and abusive. Misuse of deadly force is so brazen that officers once allegedly shot dead six drug dealers who had already surrendered and were handcuffed. Television cameras showed them being marched into a shack, six shots were heard, then six bodies wrapped in white sheets were carried out. But here in the deep south, it's the police who are afraid. Among the Malay Muslims...