Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firing set off the EPA crisis, provided another erratic sub plot. After pledging to cooperate with congressional investigators, she holed up in her apartment and refused to honor subpoenas from two House subcommittees looking into her management of the agency's hazardous-waste program. In another bizarre twist, she sent her appointment calendars, which she had resisted giving to the House subcommittees that had subpoenaed them, to a Senate committee that had never requested them. The calendars, listing numerous luncheon and dinner dates with representatives of chemical companies she regulated but very few with environmental lobbyists, buttressed charges that...
Today, nearly 350 years later, that original intention has a new twist. Young men still go to Harvard to become ministers, but at the University's Divinity School--the site of such training at Harvard since 1816--some of the liveliest issues scholars are confronting concern the role of women in religion...
...full of cards, he fished it out. Grabbing at the case, the boy looked nervous for the first time. After a lightning search, he tossed it toward a green wooden planter near the hotel entryway. In doing so, he let fall a single dollar bill. Caught by a little twist of wind, it skittered an inch or two across the sidewalk...
...original Sting was remarkable because it combined the most unlikely twists of plot with entirely plausible characters. At the close of the movie, when the Robert Redford and Paul Newman characters turn out only to be feigning death, the twist is a shock because those actors portray such genuine. killable men. The viewer believes he is watching real-world scenes in which such a tragedy could occur. The movie itself is a con game, the audience its victims, and everyone falls...
...oldest of the Campers, as the group was called, was Art Lessel, 63, a corporate jet pilot who pitched for the Air Force in occupied Japan. Said he: "My legs are in shape, and my arm feels good. I can still twist off a few curves, pull the string on a change-up, throw a fair knuckleball, and move the ball around pretty good." Not everyone had such steely resolve. Denny Albano, 42, a Chicago commodities trader who was varsity catcher at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., trained mostly on four vodkas a day. When he essayed his first indoor...