Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college senior (not a Harvard man) had the common complaint with an odd twist. He contracted gonorrhea four times last winter, though he insisted that he had only one girl friend. How had either of them caught gonorrhea? Probably, Dr. Fiumara speculated, at a marijuana bash that developed into a love-in. "I think I was always having relations with my girl friend," the student replied, "but I can't be sure-you get a bit fogged up." Said the girl: "Even at the parties, I always stay loyal to Jim-I think." Because the two did not have...
...face of it, Goody's claim seemed absurd. But not in quirky old England. There, as in some American jurisdictions, a criminal conviction does not constitute proof of guilt in a civil case growing out of the same offense. And British courts allowed a special twist in 1964, when Convicted Safecracker Alfie Hinds realized that the one- court-does-not-recognize-what-the-other-is-doing theory could also be applied to libel cases. He sued a retired police inspector who had arrested him and who had written a series of articles saying that he was guilty. The libel...
...chestnut is not so much its romance, its medieval setting, its aria-like speeches--as its flagrant predictability. The title tells you that the lady won't get burned, just as the juvenile's first glance at the ingenue tells you that they'll end up eloping. Despite the twist with which the story starts out--the hero arrives and announces he wants to be hanged--the gist of the play is not only old, but old-fashioned. Life, it says, is lousy and there are two ways out: Death and falling in love. In the age of No Exit...
...herself that her neighbors are a coven of witches, that even her obstetrician is in league with them, and that they are casting their designs upon her baby-to-be for their own diabolical purposes. The plot hinges on whether Rosemary's fear is real or a fantasy twist brought on by her turning from the faith...
...subjective space-the difference between seeing and remembering, between appearances and reality. The daughter of a Cologne genetics and anthropology professor, she works today in the U.S., building extraordinary constructions that combine lines and squiggles, notes and letters, painted wood hemispheres and optical-glass lenses that jiggle and twist the viewer's eye as he walks...