Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Librarian, I am cold. Pray you. Undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...
Even from his grammar school days, academics never challenged Reed. Exploiting the elective system's flexibility and confining his studies (when he found time for them) to literature, composition and ancient history, he avoided all natural sciences and social sciences--a seemingly odd twist for someone who, only a few years later, would find no other cause but politics worth the effort. This seeming apathy prompted his apparent decision not to join in Harvard's Socialist Club, a serious organization created for the discussion of both the theory and practice that would put control of popular institutions under the control...
Rather than merely report what he saw and did for 12 months, the author attempts literary characters, dramatic scenes of personal confrontation and even a shocking plot twist. He fails on all counts, clouding his insights and raising questions about his truthfulness--questions which might not otherwise have come...
...squadron of toddlers tapdances behind her on rows of white pianos. Instead of actually singing, though, Eileen and her chorus mouth the words to an original version of the 30's hit. All the songs in the film are done this way, and it adds a bizarre twist to Arthur's wish for a place "where the songs are real...
...prettily played by Rachel Ward). That leads to a further excellent passage, for in the course of listening to her bugged conversations and photographing her comings and goings with powerful lenses, Sharky's professionally justified voyeurism turns to romantic longing, not to say obsession, and, eventually, a plot twist that has been good ever since Laura's face was first glimpsed in a misty light...