Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grenada is "praedial larceny," the theft of garden vegetables. Some of the government's highest marks, in fact, come from its chief critics. "I would vote for them if they trusted us with a free vote," says one of Grenada's leading figures in his own twist of sensible island logic. "But they won't, so I'm one of their attackers...
Undergraduate protests at Harvard's Commencement exercises are practically an unofficial tradition by now. But the June demonstrations might take on a new twist this year if the newly formed Harvard Coalition of Student Leaders...
...Bern intercepted the machines in France while they were en route to Moscow. Cooperating with the French counterintelligence service, he short-circuited the wiring and removed vital parts, reducing $500,000 worth of equipment to electronic scrap. But Swiss authorities warn that the scam may have a different twist: accounts of the CIA's role might have been planted by the KGB to reduce Western anxieties about the wholesale theft of technology by the Soviets...
...story and milieu are familiar enough, in movies from The Graduate to Diner, to constitute a new American genre. But whenever Baby, It's You starts to become rambling or folkloric, Sayles and his charming young actors find a way to twist or energize the clichés. You can catch a glisten of moisture in the eye of an "easy," misused girl who's too proud to cry; or contemplate Jill's half-embarrassed smile when she goes dancing cheek to Sheik; or fall in with the gliding camera that circles the young lovers during their...
Pusshkin's tale involves a Russian poet, Charsky, who befriends an Italian improvisatore. The Italian tells yet another story, "Cleopatra and Her Lovers," in which Cleopatra agrees to take as a lover for one night my man who is willing to die the next morning. The runic twist at the end of the Cleopatra story is the essence of Thomas central theme--the link between creativity, consciousness and death. "Sex, of course," Thomas once wrote, "includes all creativity, and death includes its own vanquishing...