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...napkins and bath towels as if they were flower beds or pavilions in a park." Dan's yearning for the good life - and his delight with the gustatory perks of his new calling - initially blind him to the swamp of favors and payoffs he has entered. But, in a twist out of the Socialist Realism handbook, he finds himself becoming a real journalist. After he notices that his fellow diners have filed inaccurate, self-censored stories about an event he attends, Dan writes his own account. Soon ordinary people are bringing him heart-breaking tales of injustice and corruption...
...moot. The nasty ads, personal attacks and avalanche of money may have little to do with the outcome of Tuesday's race, since both candidates appear to have forgotten the twist on Tennessee's ballot: a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban gay marriage-which both candidates support. Under state law, a constitutional amendment can be adopted only if more than 50% of the people voting for governor vote for the amendment. Political insiders say that usually causes great confusion at the polls and results in many one-shot votes: instead of simply abstaining from the governor...
...both how they operate but how the public sees them.“We wanted to change in order to position ourselves to better serve student interests,” says O’Brien.In the arena of concerts, they quickly tried to turn their image around through a twist on the event formerly known as Spring Fest, renamed Yardfest, which was held last April. With help from the Dean’s Office, the HCC organized a well-attended concert by Ben Folds. O’Brien sees the event as a turning point. “We wanted...
...Halloween may be a Western holiday, if you want to read horror comics this week, you'd do better turning to Japan. The wealth of material being imported far outpaces the amount and quality produced domestically in the horror genre. Three outstanding recent releases range in style from a twist on the teenagers-in-peril subgenre (Junji Ito's Museum of Terror) to extreme gross-out humor (Toru Yamazaki's Octopus Girl) to a disturbing medical thriller by Japan's most revered comix creator (Osamu Tezuka's Ode to Kirihito...
...comments by Emory University art historian Dorinda Evans, an expert on Stuart’s work, mark the latest twist in the mysterious saga of the Kirkland painting, which disappeared from Harvard...