Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last, a happy twist. After a 17-year struggle with decrepit equipment, bad management and public disdain, Amtrak has come into its own. Most of the filthy, ever late, steamy-in-summer, frigid-in-winter rattletraps that Amtrak inherited at birth in 1970 have finally been refurbished or retired. Last year for the first time, Amtrak covered its above-rail operating costs. Its 2,400 cars rolled along 24,000 miles of track in 43 states, carrying 21 million passengers, 12% more than the previous year. "You can't get sleeping accommodations for the summer going west," says Chicago Travel...
...charming even unto death), is determined not to go gentle into that good night. He will devote his final hours to finding out who slipped him slow-acting but irreversible poison. But Cornell is no longer an accountant. He is a blocked novelist, cynically teaching college lit. The new twist is that Cornell's death, not to mention several others, is motivated not by the usual lusts (money, sex, power) but by dark literary passions. How far we have come from 1949, when it was a boring old iridium shipment that set everyone's wheels spinning. How acute of D.O.A...
...second act the action takes place throughout and even outside the room, and Prascak makes the audience stretch and twist continuously to comprehend everything that's going on. The actors rotate a lot in an attempt to display the play in front of the whole audience, but, inevitably, they inconvenience half the audience half the time. While the staging could be used to highlight the play's interaction between complex and often frustrated businessmen, in Prascak's hands it becomes an irritation...
...Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary have undoubtedly been blown out of proportion by most of the press. But the three networks' decision virtually to set up shop in those states (all three evening newscasts originated from New Hampshire on Monday and Tuesday) helped magnify every twist and nuance in the poll results. As for the Olympics, world-class competitions in skiing and skating take place even in years not divisible by four -- and are ignored by 98% of the U.S. audience. But with blanket TV coverage for 16 days in Calgary, a tiny slip on the ice suddenly...
...ECAC race, the Duke and his loyal followers have given it another twist. Harvard is now tied for first place. Vermont is tied for the fourth spot, which would give the Cats home-ice for the playoffs...