Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the number of hostages was being argued, the crisis took yet another bizarre twist, this time in Qum. There Khomeini met with six U.S. ministers, apparently under the mistaken impression that they included the three Americans who had visited the embassy. He delivered a tirade against the failings of Christian clergymen and of Pope John Paul II, who has urged that the hostages be released. Asked Khomeini: "Do you know that, with his economic blockade, Mr. Carter intends to let 35 million people die of starvation? Does the Pope know about all this and yet condemn...
...screen fills with hundreds of colored shapes spinning like a crayola volcano dancing the twist. The Electric Horseman, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, is not scheduled to start for ten minutes yet the balding accountant three seats down already has his right hand in bucket of popcorn; his other inching up his wife's sweater, his eyes aimed at the screen. The color pattern repeats itself on the black screen, revolving twice with a one and a half twist like a lasarium with hiccups. Everyone in the theater, not just the accountant, watches the screen as if something were...