Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle is far from over. Congress has weeks to go on its spending bills and cannot respond to the Administration's latest proposals until Reagan outlines his strategy. Whatever that strategy is, appropriation subcommittee chairmen say they will resist an effort to twist further the budget process to fit the President's political needs. For this they should be applauded; Reagan has too easily convinced the public that his fiscal gamesmanship should be seen only as a determined Mr. Conservative besting a flabby Mr. Liberal. In fact, the procedural tricks play a large role in the budget fight...
...oddity was that five of the jurors were under 24, all singles who had been living at home with their parents, and they naturally formed a social group. They invented a cocktail they called the "Pontiac" (Amaretto and soda with a twist of lime). They held occasional mock trials at which one of them proved adept at imitating the lawyers involved in the case. On April Fools' Day, Linda Tumino, 21, hid in the back of the sheriffs bus and caused a momentary panic among the deputies when they found themselves missing one juror. "All it was was party...
...latest of some 400 works on Nostradamus since his death in 1566, Jean-Charles de Fontbrune's Nostradamus?Historian and Prophet is an interpretation with a twist: De Fontbrune analyzed the use and frequency of words with the help of a computer in his translation from 16th century French. Nostradamus' predictions, originally titled Centuries, are contained in 1,050 verses, mostly quatrains. He is said to have conceived his vague but troubling visions while staring into a brass bowl filled with water; he is otherwise best known as Charles IX's doctor. Published in November 1980, De Fontbrune's book...
...author's definition of a free minute covers a lot of ground. Friends note that if Irving grows abstracted in company, the chances are he is mulling a plot twist or a change in his phrasing. He is compulsive about making revisions. "I never feel something is finished, even on the galleys," he says. "By then it may be just little things, a tense, a semicolon. I make changes in the finished book. No one else will see them, but I know they are there." To Irving, the ear can be as important as the eye. Many...
...begins this loopy yarn, set in the misty, myth-ridden hills and bogs of County Donegal, northwest Ireland. Once his victim is buried deep in the peat, Roarty begins to receive demanding notes from "Bogmailer."The mystery meanders with Irish indirection to a surprising last-minute plot twist, employing a cast of tavern regulars that Flann O'Brien or Dylan Thomas would have stood to a round...