Word: twistings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prodding Broadway back to life in 2001 with The Producers. That staging of his 1968 movie was full-throttle farce with generically catchy songs, and it presaged the next generation of smart-silly musical comedies. Among its spawn were Hairspray and Spamalot, shows that put a post-modern twist on the antique shows of the '20s and '30s. Back then, plots were dental-floss clotheslines on which to hang a dozen chipper songs, and the audiences were meant to go out humming and smiling...
...that limit membership or officership on the basis of gender or religion. Haddock had ruled the previous week that the bill to amend the council’s nondiscrimination policy had not garnered the requisite two-thirds majority. But in what Haddock described as a “parliamentary twist,” a further review of last week’s meeting found that the bill only required a simple majority. The bill had passed by a 26-19 margin. —Staff writer Rachel L. Pollack can be reached at rpollack@fas.harvard.edu...
...Busch Hall Films by Oliver HorovitzCarpenter Center Debussy Piano PerformanceFogg Art Museum Calderwood Courtyard Portraits in Modern JazzHarvard Yard Stage ‘Cliffe NotesHolden Chapel Tabla JugalbandhiLoker Commons Dance FestivalLowell Lecture Hall Modern Acoustic RockMemorial Church Mass Cello PerformancePaine Hall Under ConstructionPhillips Brooks House A Cappella...With a Twist!Sanders Theatre Harvard Veritones: A Cappella PerformanceScience Center D3:15 PM Japanese Tea Ceremony DemonstrationsTearoom, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, 5 Bryant St. 3:30 PM Organ ConcertAdolphus Busch Hall Ivory Tower and Harvard HookupsCarpenter Center Prokofiev Sonata for Violin and PianoFogg Art Museum Calderwood Courtyard Liz Carlisle...
...other over the internet—with the aliases Lensman319 and Thonggrrrrl14, nods to his profession and her age (gross)—and decide to meet in person. However, this is in no way “You’ve Got Mail” with a pedophiliac twist. This is one superb film by all accounts that you won’t be able to shake off. After Haley (Ellen Page) and Jeff (Patrick Wilson, “The Phantom of the Opera”) meet in public, they quickly decide to go back to his apartment...
...both cases, the government also backed off, with serious consequences. The 1996 climbdown by then Prime Minister Alain Juppé helped bring a socialist government to power the following year; in the 2000 debacle it was Finance Minister Christian Sautter who lost his job. But here's the twist: years later, both sets of reforms have happened anyway. The national pension system was revamped three years ago. The Finance Ministry, long a bastion of public-sector inefficiency, is today one of the few government departments that is successfully reducing its head count, cutting costs and improving productivity...