Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team stormed Detroit's Frederick and Herrud pork-processing plant, hauling off 33 workers. There, the bad feelings that greeted the agents everywhere across the U.S. took a comic twist when two gun-toting INS men rushed through a door into a holding area only to be charged by a herd of angry hogs. The terrified officers escaped by swinging across the rafters, Tarzan-style. None of the 33 arrested were illegal aliens...
...depth of even the most textbook "liberated" characters. In Life Before Man, the novel before Bodily Harm, for instance. Lesje, one of three narrators who form a triangle, holds a paleontology job at a Toronto museum. She works there passionately, betraying encyclopedic knowledge, weaving elaborate Cretaceous fantasies Atwood's twist makes the job consist in large measure of classifying, cleaning and filing innumerable Jurassic fish earbones...
DEATHTRAP BEGS to be compared to Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth, another closed-room, twist-filled thriller, and unquestionably loses out in the comparison. But with intricate plot twists (which unfortunately tend to fizzle toward the end), and some snappy dialogue, it makes a fair attempt at matching the wit and elegance of Shaffer's play. Tendorp, the psychic, adds a nice comic touch by dropping by to see Sidney at all the wrong times, and prophesying ominously about a dangerous playwright named "Smith-Collona." Cannon is suitably daffy as the gushing Myra, and Reeve is, well, a hunk. Caine...
Watson's coach, John Walker, said the competition was "fabulous--he had to hit everything." Walker raved about Watson's best dive, a back one-and-a-half somersault with a two-and-one-half twist, calling it a "typical Dan Watson back twister--it was excellent...
...them seem unimportant by lovingly photographing his subjects' every muscle in a moist, lush color often enhanced by slow motion, and the eerie sound of rhythmic breathing. This may sound cliched by now, especially after the slow-motion races of Chariots of Fire, but Towne always adds an extra twist to keep things from getting boring. In one particularly stunning warm-up sequence, for instance, he follows the team through all five pentathlon events: A dozen shotputters twirl into one perfect throw, and the high jump becomes a graceful cascade of falling torsos. Sweat drips heavily to a moist track...