Word: twists
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...opened by each nation, one in Chicago, the other in Chengdu, which is some 950 miles southwest of Peking. Though hardly expected to pass up the opportunity to remind Reagan of "the Taiwan problem," the Chinese will be pleased to greet him: his visit will be yet another twist in the continuing diplomatic but psychological warfare that Peking is waging against Moscow. Declared one White House official last week: "There are no stars in anyone's eyes on either side this time. But both sides see the importance of building the relationship." Indeed, after Andropov's outburst...
...matter how much Alexander Cockburn in the Village Voice and others like him believe in the absolute corruptability of our government, they still cannot by any stretch of the imagination twist evidence into a condemnation of this country's role in the affair...
Author Sinclair Lewis, whose position as National Champion Castigator is challenged only by his fellow idealist, Critic Henry Louis Mencken, has made another large round-up of grunting, whining, roaring, mewing, driveling, snouting creatures-of fiction-which, like an infuriated swineherd, he can beat, goad, tweak, tail-twist, eye-jab, belly-thwack, spatter with sty-filth and consign to perdition. The new collection closely resembles the herd obtained on the Castigator's last foray, against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from upcreek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city...
Oswald Spengler, who liked to think that the twilight of Western civilization will be marked not by true religion, but by an upsurge of fervid religiosity. Jesus Christ Superstar, the rock opera that is rocking Broadway's new season, is show biz with a twist: Director Tom O'Horgan, who was influenced by Olsen & Johnson, has made it into a sort of Heavenzapoppin...
...been culled from the pages of The Pickwick Papers: the Rev. Mootfowl, Pearly Soames, Rupert Binky, Daythril Moobcot, Hardesty Marratta, Jesse Honey. The portraits of the huddled poor, the satirically named newspapers (the Evening Ghost, the Morning Whale) all echo Dickens' works. But it is Oliver without a Twist, Chuzzle minus...