Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handle was chosen in frank imitation of Fats Domino) met her husband-to-be while he was doing a show in the Philippines last January. "He's different," she says. "He's the quiet type, and I like the way he hums around." Now that was a twist, and it brought a response in kind from Chubby's mom. The lovely Miss Lodders, said she, "is very warm, very nice. Chubby dated quite a few girls, but this is the first time he got serious...
Shostakovich explores every twist in the tale with a lively assortment of musical styles, and the music sustains the entire drama. The heroine, who despite her crimes is meant to be "a ray of light in the kingdom of darkness," is described in lyrical and eloquent themes, while an array of jarring, brassy polkas, gallops and mazurkas evoke the absurdity that surrounds her. In the revision, Shostakovich has tightened and refined both music and libretto, producing a work more polished and subdued -and considerably more singable...
...enraging, engaging Spanish surrealist with well-beeswaxed handlebars has arrived in Manhattan with ten surprises in tow. Samples: Galacidalacidesoxiribunu-cleicacid, Twist in the studio of Velasquez, and Fifty abstract pictures which as seen from two yards change into three Lenines masquerading as Chinese and as seen from six yards appear as the head of a royal tiger. Somehow, he frequently manages to top his titles. Through...
...palatial embassy set on 25 wooded acres in Chevy Chase. She and Fernando, a wealthy aristocrat who went to Notre Dame but speaks with a British accent, often entertain younger members of the New Frontier-the Bobby Kennedys, the Paul Fays-and the guests sometimes form conga lines or twist...
...garage with all the deadly, humorless efficiency of a professional demolition crew. Cutting from incident to incident, car to car, ground to air, the film dissipates its fun at every turn, and the only chase to build up steam is a Chase named Barrie, who dances a wicked deadpan twist. Mad World reaches its nadir with an abortive climax that puts Spencer Tracy and ten comedians atop a fire ladder reeling several stories above the street, presumably on the assumption that eleven men suspended in mid-air will be eleven times funnier than Harold Lloyd used to be. Alas...