Word: twistings
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...canny outsider itching to outsmart the system. He has higher hopes for Spy Game, in which he co-stars with Brad Pitt, whom he directed in the 1992 drama A River Runs Through It. With Pitt as his former protege, Redford plays a renegade CIA agent, a twist on the government-targeted fugitive he played in 1975 in Three Days of the Condor. "Condor was a critical look at the CIA, and Spy Game is an inside look at it from a historical perspective," he says. "It's intriguing to play a character that's the flip side...
...profit college-savings network called Upromise hopes to add even more savers with a unique twist on the 529 program. It offers parents ways to save even as they spend. A few cents of each dollar they pay for gas, a car or even a home can go into a special college-savings account set up through Upromise. "People are stuck. They're not saving, and they feel guilty. This allows them to get started," says Upromise founder Michael Bronner...
FISHNET A clever new screen saver adds a twist to the old virtual aquarium. Download DALiworld, available free at www.daliworld.net and gorgeously realistic angelfish, parrot fish and other sea dwellers will swim around your desktop. But don't get too attached: after a while the fish will swim away over the Internet, off your desktop and onto someone else...
...Harvard’s first play from scrimmage after Alford’s defensive hold, Rose was intercepted by Yale free safety Barton Simmons. It was just another twist in a back-and-forth game, because when Yale’s offense stalled, Davis’ 42-yard field goal attempt was blocked by Balestracci at the line of scrimmage. Harvard had dodged another bullet...
...plot twist, as it were, comes during a brief encounter between the title character and self-help guru Tony Robbins, who somehow causes Hal to see women as physical reflections of their inner beauty. Hal’s world has been turned inside out (as have the women who inhabit it), but he doesn’t know...