Word: twistings
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...some strange twist of preppy fate, the brainstorming for this article took place at the WASP epicenter—a quaint, boutique-dotted road in the middle of Martha’s Vineyard. With so much research material at my fingertips, I was poised to make a brilliant and insightful commentary on Harvard’s preppy culture...
...keep trying to twist the facts and look at this from a different perspective. It’s only April, I tell myself. Alex Rodriguez is the best player in the game. Jason Giambi will hit 40 homers, like always. Javier Vazquez and Kevin Brown are improvements over Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens. The Yanks’ bullpen is way better this year than it was last year. Derek Jeter is just in a mini-slump. Come September, the Yankees will be flying five games ahead of Boston, as always...
Thankfully the samples in here go beyond the ordinary R & B hits of the 60s and 70s. They dig and find hooks—often narrated instead of sung—that they can dominate instead of giving a new twist on an old classic that dominates their rhymes...
THURSDAY: Oliver Twist. (1984) Alec Guinness and John Howard Davies in David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic make the recent "Oliver!" stick in your gulliver by comparison. With Anthony Newley as the Artful Dodger...
Keeping it a joke is probably the best way to deal with it because in crew, if you can’t look at things with a humorous twist, you probably won’t last too long...