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Word: twists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FIRST, Tango seems to be just another avant-garde play with a gimmick. In this case the cute twist is a generation-gap role-reversal. The older members of the family are non-conformists and the young son is a traditionalist. By the time act one comes to a close, the audience feels as if it's being hit over the head with this witty, bizarre, but tediously predictable pattern...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Tails and Short Pants | 4/24/1976 | See Source »

...experienced crowd knows what must come next. Even as Koloff adds a twist to the chain, even as he forces Bruno farther into the ropes, the roar begins to build, cutting through the smoke and the beer and the disbelief. The obvious fakery and slapstick theatricality of the earlier bouts has been forgotten, swallowed up in screams for vengeance and blood...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: The Great Russian Chain Match | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

...twist the issue into one of press freedom is ludicrous. TIME Canada has not been forbidden to publish, nor have its contents been in any way censored. Parliament has simply seen fit, as has our own Congress on many occasions, to structure its tax laws to protect home industry and thereby preserve national economic vigor. I say bully for Canadian identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 29, 1976 | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...will not be, elitist or socially exclusive. To quote from your article, it is hard to fathom the import of Dr. Chase Peterson's words. "Too few people are involved in final clubs to feel excluded if they were unable to join." This is a curious brand of Twist-O-Flex logic to say that a member of a majority group seeking access to a minority clique will not feel excluded if denied that access...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOMEN'S CLUB | 3/25/1976 | See Source »

...needs to be. But in 15 years of Senate floor leadership - the longest tenure of any floor leader in the history of the upper chamber - he is legendary for almost never having lost his temper. Other majority leaders, like Mansfield's predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, bullied, threatened and arm-twist ed recalcitrant colleagues. The Montanan soothed, persuaded with calm reason and took the quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SENATE: Mansfield Steps Down | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

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