Word: twistings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...them through my closed lids. I hear the words Zorak and Moltar and realize that my new, lovely wife Cassandra is watching Space Ghost. I tell Frank the next day. "We often hear complaints from wives that their husbands are not helping," he says. "It's an interesting twist that your wife is undermining you. Welcome to married life...
...certainly much classier than its relative next door, it retains the eclectic soul of The Middle East. The name itself conjures images of exotic foreignness as well as a certain sense of silliness, and the restaurant’s character embodies those qualities. The decor is a modern twist on classic bistro, a mixture of the traditional and the unexpected. The antiquey cranberry-red wood cabinets, the slightly crowded chocolate-brown tables, and the water served from retro glass bottles all evoke the aura of a casual café in the French countryside. At the same time, large colorful canvases...
...from harmful asbestos exposure. Claimants like these, unlike the truly sick who most often seek out their lawsuits, are rounded up in mass screenings by lawyers looking to add to the roles of plaintiffs; after all, such lawyers take 25 to 40 percent of the damages. In a sadistic twist, these kind of lawsuits prevent the truly sick from being compensated and having their care paid for, because the corporations that made them sick are all being driven into bankruptcy or out of business by the illegitimate lawsuits. With the true offenders like Raymark now out of business, most lawyers...
...curious twist, the restaurant has managed to maintain a tenuous connection to the Pudding—its future home once housed the Pi Eta social and theatrical group, the now-defunct rival of the Hasty Pudding...
...with reproductive choice that they neglect the needs of women who choose to be mothers. In the history of the family, she notes, it is a very recent development for women to have control over childbearing, thanks to better health care and birth control. But there's an ironic twist now. "In just 30 years, we've gone from fearing our fertility to squandering it--and very unwittingly." The decision of whether to have a child will always be one of the most important anyone makes; the challenge is not allowing time and biology to make it for them...