Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grease is not the play to see for bardic, tear-jerking drama, but those in a lighter mood should find their way to this talented rendition of an often very funny script. Maybe there's still a bit of life in the "twist...
...thrower Dinesh D'Souza followed in The New York Times by implying that those who support divestment from South Africa are in fact condoning mass extinction and, by obvious implication, persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union. That charge, in addition to being utterly absurd, lent a new, odious twist to anti-Semitic-baiting by the right...
...simpler times, beepers were usually worn by doctors on call to answer medical emergencies. Today they are routinely carried by executives, lawyers and journalists. In fact, they are something of a status symbol. Now comes a new twist: an ersatz beeper so that people can beep themselves. Press a small button. About 25 seconds later, a red light flashes and a beep starts to sound. The person can gracefully excuse himself from a boring business meeting or a dull blind date. About the size of cigarette lighter, this device, called the Timely Beeper, weighs 2.5 oz. and sells...
Adding a new twist to the Harvard tradition of faculty sponsorship of clubs, the new Film Society has enlisted motion picture studio heads and the Arts Editor of the Los Angeles Times as advisors...
...different kind of experience. Yet even as he lets the Reader peek into the control room of the observatory, Calvino is playing games. At the end of this story of a man trying to order the world, Calvino unveils an ordering of the story itself. With a final ironic twist, Calvino presents a mathematical model of the book that is just another set of lenses for the Reader...