Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of Quincy House residents have added a new twist to the time-honored tradition of pre-professionalism at Harvard: now, in addition to pre-meds and pre-laws, a clique of undergraduates has gone pre-rich...
...chemists at the University of Chicago have added an important new twist to this version of the apocalypse. Edward Anders and his colleagues reported in the journal Science last week that they had found evidence of a global firestorm that raged about the time the dinosaurs disappeared. The conflagration, they say, suggests that the consequences of a great Cretaceous impact were even worse than the Alvarezes had dreamed...
Tesich manages to breath some new life into this old victim, however. The mood throughout the movie is sincerely joyous, not the usual frantic desperation of a terminal groping at a little more happiness. And a very clever twist in the plot manages to shake the viewer up considerably...
...this desperation come from? New York, you say? Good answer, but desperation goes too far back and strays too far afield from New York. For all its Newest Wave, mod feel, Susan traces its anxious female motif back to the gangster melodrama films of the 30's, with one twist. Like the vapid blonds in film noir, our housewife seeks her thrills in a more happening world, but there the comparison must end. Her idol is not a man, but Susan; her goal not to grab her idol's pants, but to wear them...
Kira R. Diaz of Mather House said she "would like to have a special senior week and give senior activities a new twist with creative new ideas...