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Word: twists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Flooding the Late-Night Munchie Market | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Giving Music | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Let Him Eat Pizza | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Tails the Mexican Pet | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dutiful Daughter | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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