Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gear: a blackboard diagram. The way Adler uses it, however, would make less self-confident teachers quail. For his goal, it turns out, is not to illustrate a point but to start an argument. To do so, Adler returns to Garrick's first question, but adds a new twist. The blackboard diagram contains conflicting statements about the nature of beauty. Position A holds that beauty is purely subjective. Position B holds that there is an objective aspect to beauty as as well. Adler explains the definitions, then asks for a show of hands. When two hands are raised...
Begin then gave a humanitarian twist to the raid. He declared that the reactor was going to start to process highly radioactive materials either the first week of July or the first week of September. Once the reactor was "hot," explained Begin, any successful bombing attack would unleash "a horrifying wave of radioactivity." In a ghoulish reference, he reminded listeners that Nazi mass murderers had used poisonous Zyklon B gas on their Jewish victims, and radioactivity "is also a poison." Said Begin: "In Baghdad, hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens would have been hurt. I for one would never have...
...some other art form." If Kaufman functions as a one-man Weather Underground, Brooks is a more accessible, ultimately more subversive radical professor of post-funny comedy. Says Brooks, who was born Albert Einstein, son of the dialect comedian Parkyakarkus: "Life is so bizarre anyway, the slightest twist can make it really funny." Brooks' twist is so slight, so deft, that many may not get the joke. In 1975 he and Harry Shearer wrote and produced A Star Is Bought, a record album ostensibly designed to "sell" Albert Brooks to various radio audiences. There was a patriotic monologue...
That is far from the end of the story, however. All this occurred while the President was incapacitated and unable to exert his distinctive persuasiveness. Many on Capitol Hill feel that the setbacks are reversible. The White House will certainly try to arm-twist Republican defectors on the Senate Budget Committee back into line. Moreover, in a House floor vote expected in late April or early May, some 40 conservative Democrats who hold the balance of power may yet vote for a set of spending and revenue estimates closer to the President's figures than to those of their...
...sign above a brick archway in the basement of Immaculate Conception Church in the Poletown neighborhood of Detroit reads GM-MARK OF DESTRUCTION. It is a wry twist on the "mark of excellence" slogan of the General Motors Corp., but none of the few dozen mostly elderly and Polish-American homeowners gathered in the room last week were laughing. Members of the Poletown Neighborhood Council, they are engaged in a battle to save their neighborhood as the city of Detroit prepares to raze some 1,500 private homes, schools and businesses in order to make...