Word: twists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prize Stories 1979: The O. Henry Awards contains no such surprises. It is a solid, predictable gathering with one interesting sociological twist. Most of the stories are about failing marriages. Three reasons suggest themselves: more writers are writing about what they know, and what they know is failing marriages; the subject is particularly appealing to the editor; or both...
...Like the World War II sailors of On the Town, Claude plans to take in the tourist sights, but he is quickly seduced by more hedonistic pleasures. Falling in with a tribe of long-haired dropouts, he soon discovers countercultural drugs and politics. Thanks to a whimsically funny plot twist, he also falls in love with Sheila (the voluptuous but innocent Beverly D'Angelo), a debutante he gallantly rescues from the upper-crust sobriety of Short Hills...
...play up the soloist, adding a flourish here or a rhythmic twist there, never straying from the background. Whitney Balliett is his critical counterpart. Jazz aficionados tend to go heavy on the adjectives; Balliett favors a deceptively simple style that illuminates the musician instead of the writer...
Serge and Nicole's incest in itself isn't the main theme. It's just an ironic twist that the only people who have a fulfilling love must break the most rigid taboo of society to share it. When Serge shouts through tears, "Poppa, I love you, even though no one's ever told you that because it's the kind of thing you don't shout!" we are closer to the real heart of the play...
...product. Says Weidenbaum: "This gets to the heart of the matter, which is to slow down the growth of the Government." One danger is that the G.N.P. is the product of many estimates and is often revised; if spending were linked to the G.N.P., politicians would be tempted to twist and bend that number...