Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With that self-inflicted reminder of the Watergate era-echoing advice by John Ehrlichman to John Dean that L. Patrick Gray should be left to "twist slowly, slowly in the wind" rather than be quickly confirmed by the Senate as FBI director-President Reagan last week tried to reassure anxious former campaign aides. He was suggesting that none will be fired from his present position because of the tempest over how his staff secured Jimmy Carter's debate briefing book...
...those who changed Reagan's life, and he will never forget it. Fraser not only formed a drama club but urged his student writers to turn their imaginations loose. "I developed a great taste for writing then," recalled Reagan. "I sometimes went way afield and did a humorous twist on what he asked for. I wasn't long in noticing he would have several of those read in class, and I was always called upon to read mine. Maybe that's where the ham began. I would write with the idea that I was going to read...
...whistles and rhythmic chants of "Eddie! Ed-die!" Nor is it when his mouth gapes into an innocent, megawatt smile; that is the occasion for a huge communal laugh. No, it is when he is just standing there, waiting for some other actor to set up a screwball twist to the plot, that Eddie Murphy's effect on people is easiest to measure. In those quiet moments, 2,000 moviegoers turn into so many pussycats, purring contentedly, basking in the delight that is both provided and experienced by a 22-year-old black man in what is only...
...West, the first of his plays to infiltrate the West End, can be seen as a new West Side Story. Mike (Rory Edwards), leader of a quintet of Hackney toughs, challenges a rival gang boss to one-on-one combat and just barely lives to tell the tale. Berkoffs twist: Mike and every other character speak in iambic pentameter. Will the rival boss kick Mike in the crown? "Balls! Were he Al Capone I'd pluck 'im down...
...plottings are too tortuous to be entirely per suasive. To accommodate them, and set up its own Mama's boy twist ending, the movie of ten slows to a crawl as it tries to explain it self. On the other hand, that ending is genuinely surprising and, like much of the rest of Psycho II, it has a certain sly wit about it. Indeed, there is a rather good-na tured air about this not overly scary pic ture, which pays homage to Hitchcock's most famous (but not best) work without trying either...