Word: twistings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...MINOR SPOILER ALERT: Married Life's twist on the genre is that there is no twist. You keep waiting for the irony to kick in, but the characters just plod through the purgatory they've created for themselves. More a case history than a devious puzzle, the movie is like a story overheard from the next restaurant booth: for all your curiosity as to how it turns out, you're not likely to have much personal investment in the people. Actually, Married Life doesn't suck. Its actors lend conviction to their roles, and the film looks classy, like...
...solar power with a twist: it harnesses the heat of the sun, not just its light. Instead of directly converting sunlight into electricity with photovoltaic panels - the kind you might see on rooftops - solar thermal uses rows of specially curved parabolic mirrors to focus sunlight on a pipe full of synthetic oil. The sun's energy superheats the oil, which is then used to boil water into steam. The steam runs turbines, which generates electricity. The technology is as simple as any fossil fuel plant, and cheaper by material than the technologically complex photovoltaic panels. It can be more easily...
...Harvard came out of the locker room and found its touch. A three-pointer from Knox at 15:29 gave the Crimson its first lead of the game, starting a stretch of ties and lead changes that would last the rest of the game. Harvard fans responded to each twist and turn with raucous cheers, none louder than when a no-look pass from junior guard Emily Tay at the three-point line found Hallion alone under the basket. Hallion’s easy lay-in tied the game at 40 with just under eight minutes to play. Cornell responded...
...these allusions. In other passages, Baxter’s authorial voice antagonizes the reader, directly criticizing him for not catching onto the author’s hidden agenda until it was too late. But Baxter’s abrasiveness is unnecessary: even the most oblivious reader will realize the twist at the end of “The Soul Thief.” The reader realizes that Nathanial has been duped at the same time that the character does and that it must be more painful for Nathanial than it is for us. (To avoid spoiling the book I will...
...After a barrage of sports films tackling the worlds of NASCAR racing, figure skating, and now basketball, Ferrell says this is the end of his athletic movie run. However, “Semi-Pro” does manage to give the familiar underdog plot a slight twist. As Moon, Ferrell plays the owner and team captain of the Tropics, a sub-par American Basketball Association (ABA) team from Flint, MI. When the ABA merges with the NBA, Moon tries to take his team to the big league by shooting for a fourth-place finish. The tension comes down...