Word: twists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oliver Twist appeared at the classroom door, empty notebook in his outstretched hand. "Please, Sir. I want some more...
...imagined memory: a tiny, homemade Mississippi River raft, buoyant on blue oil-drums, flapping blue canvas greetings from its scanty half deck. On board is a troupe of traveling players who ply their ancient art along the river's muddy banks. But their message has a decidedly new twist. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Otrabanda Theatre Company-four actors, one actress, a crew-woman and, until recently, a dog named Sweenie-this summer is bringing frenetic, sometimes avant-garde drama to 30 Mississippi River communities from St. Louis to New Orleans...
Berryman's final book of poems, Delusions, etc. points to this funny twist of Irony in his Belief. The book is mainly a series of daily prayers, some overwhelmingly joyous, many serious addresses to God. Only a few of these last poems are sad. But then there is the title, and a picture of a smug Berryman staring out--is he laughing to himself or finally at ease...
Whenever Tatum appears she fills the screen with a combination of light footed gaiety and ingenuous toughness. In her best scene she stands in front of a bathroom mirror trying to twist her ten-year-old body into a sexy pose. It remains to be seen if she can expand her repertoire a little bit and solidify her claim as a new child star...
...this kind. It's got everything: pioneer individualism and a territorial imperative much more basic than football's corporate effort; a hockey, circus atmosphere peculiar to the American brand of mass hysteria; a dying smell about it; a system for making heroes in the center spotlight; an evangelical twist. It's got politics and it's got religion...