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Word: twists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, we're back to the jaded, controlled craftwork of the mid '70s, admittedly with a twist of new-wave perversity to keep the listener interested. The Pretenders, one-part American and three-parts British, are one of a half-dozen new bands sporting a tight, high-voltage sound but displaying little of the spontaneous vitality which gives the pop-rock genre a reason for being...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Fallen Music | 2/12/1980 | See Source »

...with a new twist: Should women be registered for the draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Reopening an Old Debate | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...with women derives not from being aggressively male but from being ingratiatingly sweet. He is good at his work and is sufficiently self-aware to understand that his exceptional talent is ultimately self-defeating: he can give pleasure but never receive it. Indeed, the film's major psychological twist occurs when Julian discovers his capacity to believe in and accept the love of a decent woman (Lauren Hutton). The passages between Gere and Hutton-thanks largely to the latter's open and vulnerable playing-are the most affecting in the film. She actually convinces one of her passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pinkeye | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Librarian, I am cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Doom | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...Martin has starred, and although it is a direct cinematic translation of the record album sketch, it does not work very well. The kittens used by the juggler (a gent listed in the credits as Pig Eye Jackson) seem pretty confused, and they don't do much except twist a little in the air. Martin expresses his ambivalent disgust, but since he helped write the screenplay, and since real kittens, no doubt much confused, must have been used to film the sequence, the moviegoer feels somewhat ambivalent himself. If the scene is not actually sick, it is at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cat Catcher | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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