Word: twistings
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...Boston executive, prep-school boy, Harvard grad, a Navy ensign (like Mister Roberts' Pulver). From the start he was a master of comic timing, of the buttoned-down double take. That flummoxed look paired nicely with his ricochet vocal rhythms--he'd race through phrases, then put a twist on the crucial word. Unlike most other Hollywood actors, who relax and seem to bathe in their star quality, Lemmon worked hard. He let you read his reading of the character. His acting was less about being than about doing...
Puppeteer Basil Twist In his Symphonie Fantastique, he dunked pieces of cloth in a giant aquarium and made them dance to Berlioz. Were it not for mimes, he would get beaten up daily...
Wilson knows how to tell a story and how to twist odd sounds out of her throat, which gives the impression that the emotion is so strong it cannot be held in place by a voice or a note. Above all, she doesn't sound like a child or some jaded hussy given to parading self-denigration as a false form of honesty. In her brown beauty, she is a fully grown woman who has high command of the rhythm called swing, which can easily be defined as the sound of the pursuit of happiness...
...very public "private life," Roberts has an Old Hollywood flair for the kooky plot twist. She ditched Kiefer Sutherland at the altar; married Lyle Lovett on a whim and a prayer; was linked with dishy actors like Jason Patric and Daniel Day-Lewis. Now she and Benjamin Bratt are phffft. But her eminence obliges her to have these affairs. Being a movie goddess is not only a skilled trade; it's tough work...
Sure, it's uplifting to read about John Adams and the Founding Fathers, or those daring exploits of the Greatest Generation during World War II. But they also serve who only twist the screws--as you'll learn from One Good Turn, a history of the humble screwdriver. It's just one of a spate of oddball history books that eschew the grand and the momentous in favor of the small, the prosaic and the overlooked. Recently we've seen or will soon see histories of, among other things, salt, the ostrich, New York City sewage, flattery...