Word: twists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President was earnestly in action, the former President departed, and a Watergate-weary nation was eager to turn the scandal over to the historians. But one of Watergate's lessons was that the U.S. legal processes, once activated, cannot be turned on and off with a twist of a judicial wrist. Already it was apparent last week that Citizen Nixon was enmeshed in criminal litigation and that the nation still faces an unwanted decision on what legal toll should yet be exacted of its deposed leader...
...Polanski, Chinatown marks a certain proof of mastery to which none of his previous films gave him clear title. It falls in a genre he's never touched before, and yet it comes from his hands shaped true both to its genre and--in the unnatural, shocking twist of the ending--to its director. If there's any justice in this business Chinatown should be the big success of the year...
...Hyde through A Clockwork Orange, research scientists have been gumming things up, thereby giving the screaming fits to threatened humanists who run out to sound the alarm. In The Terminal Man, the machines, true to form, run amuck, but it is only a two-alarm panic. The twist-it can hardly be called a novelty-is that this time the machine is a man, one Harry Benson, who has had a computer implanted in his brain. Subject to unpredictable fits of rage, Benson used to beat his wife and take potshots at the neighbors. He has been diagnosed...
...microbopper parable out of Oliver Twist. There on the Queen Mary, docked at Long Beach, Calif., was little Lena Zavaroni, 10, the Scottish youngster with the big Garland voice who topped the Common Market charts in 1973 with her recording of Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me. As she gyrated with prepubescent salaciousness at the end of a U.S. promotion tour, her managers Phil and Dorothy Solomon looked on with satisfaction. "Our biggest problem in England," said Phil, "is the antiquated work laws for children. Why, Lena can only give 40 performances a year." Noting that...
Lockheed engineers have incorporated a new twist: regenerative braking. When the driver applies the brakes on San Francisco's steep hills, electrical switching will also turn the drive motor into a generator. In that mode, it will act as a drag, helping to slow the trolley, much as an auto engine does while the car is coasting downhill in gear. At the same time, it will be providing power for the flywheel's generator-motor. With this system, two-thirds of the energy needed to get up the hill should be recouped on the run down...