Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Comparisons aren't completely apt, because Christy's newest store is only about 70 percent completed. In October, the Mt. Auburn store will bring a new twist to late-night snacking when it opens a full-line deli and produce section that promises to rival White Hen Pantry's Sandwich Works...
Horovitz has in fact incorporated a character based on Geller into one of his plays. The character eventually dies during a broadcast, a plot twist that evidently troubles Geller. What follows is dead...
...activists celebrated Bok's proletarian late-night snack as a wonderful ironic twist on what they might term his let-them-eat-cake attitude toward their activities, the University president and his cohorts were certainly not as happy...
...believable urban legend, argues Brunvand, must have a combination of active ingredients in anecdotal form: currency, anonymity ("Guess what happened to a friend of a friend of mine"), an ironic twist worthy of O. Henry and a lack of factual foundation combined with a seductive plausibility. The hardiest perennials include "The Choking Doberman," a gruesome tale synthesized from two old legends: "The Witch and the Telltale Wound" and "The Misunderstood Pet." In the modern version, a woman returns home to find her Doberman choking. After two severed fingers are discovered in the dog's throat, the police are summoned...
...quantity of marijuana, about two dozen pills, drug paraphernalia, $1,900 in cash and a .25-cal. handgun, thus providing sufficient evidence for officers to arrest Bobby Dale Young, 49, a bartender, and his wife Judith Ann Young, 37, a U.S. bankruptcy-court clerk. But there was an extraordinary twist to the bust: the tipster was the Youngs' 13-year-old daughter Deanna...