Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City's decision to permit a single unidentified seven-year-old girl with AIDS to enter a second- grade class provoked an angry parental boycott in two Queens school districts, and a lawsuit has been filed seeking a reversal of school-board policy. In a bizarre twist to that case last week, the attorney representing the second- grader announced that there is evidence that the child does not have AIDS after all. The city health department stuck by its contention that the youngster has AIDS. Mayor Edward I. Koch said last week that he would appoint a medical panel...
...triathlons, events that require running, biking and swimming, suits made of shimmery synthetics in colors like taupe and copper. Jerseys come with two or three pockets for carrying small cargo, and shoes are designed to distribute pressure along the foot. Gloves are usually cut off above the knuckles, Oliver Twist-style, to enhance dexterity...
...Friday night, while singing the Beatles' "Twist and Shout," Hunsberger received harmony from three fans in the crowd. It was vintage "Luke, with hundreds of strangers singing and humming together...
...baby movie, with a spooky story, feature-film production values and, often as not, a distinctive visual style. One of Spielberg's own episodes, an hourlong drama called The Mission, envelops its suspense in a visual style that suggests Rembrandt on Halloween. More important, it finds a new twist for the Spielberg credo: the miraculous power of the artistic imagination. This story of a World War II gunnery ace + who, in the author's provocative words, "literally paints himself out of a corner," is a fairy tale for the technocratic 20th century. It should be the first movie that...
...timing of the deportation hearing was "just a twist of fate," insisted Perry Rivkind, the INS district director in Miami. He rejected any suggestion that politics influenced his decision to review the case. Chamorro, who has been denied political asylum by the U.S., claims that he has a U.S. entry visa valid through 1987. He vowed to fight any attempt to deport...