Word: twists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stage is set for a traditional web of romantic and erotic involvements that was spun out as long ago as Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangeureuses and as recently as Bob and Carol & Ted and Alice. But Beatty has added a new twist: by making a hairdresser his central character, he has come up with a man whose vigor is representative of the virtues of the times. While in romance of the past, the gallant suitor parried with a deft sword or shot a pistol with deadly accuracy, George tucks his electric hairdryer into his belt as he jumps...
...abortive right-wing coup. The attempt was so inept that some people in Lisbon speculated that the left may have deliberately stirred up violence in hopes of provoking a premature right-wing effort to seize power so that it could be easily crushed. In an ironic twist, former President António de Spínola, the alleged leader of the plot, wound up in exile in Brazil along with former Dictator Marcello Caetano, whose regime he helped topple last year. In an interview in São Paulo with TIME'S Barry Hillenbrand, Spínola said that...
...liable to look back at them after fifteen years and see that shapes that fleshed out much of your consciousness when a glimmer of the world first stirred. The Stooges are pure slapstick--they pound each other and never draw blood, they communicate with a cuff and a twist of the ear, they love each other as they fight, like Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man. Getting up from the TV floors when you're five years old and trying to bash your sister with tiny hands is no killer instinct. It just made a vulnerable kid feel...
...latest dealings of OPEC. Magazines for women have articles on breast cancer, child care, or "when to blow the whistle on the boss." In fact, one magazine this month has everyone of those articles. It even has the requisite beaming cherub on the cover, Yet there's a twist; this grinning infant is perched on an IBM Selectric typewriter. The magazine in question...
...subsequently passed by the assembly but defeated in the senate; and to Missouri, where the amendment was passed in the house. A call to Old Friend Barry Goldwater, however, proved unavailing; Arizona's senate voted against the amendment last month. "I'm not trying to twist anyone's arm," says Mrs. Ford. "All I'm asking them is to consider the merits...