A dark sky beyond Coney Island's contorted steel skyline.
In tribute to the year 1992, an elevated D.J. segued through records by erstwhile hip-hop artists like K-Solo and Apache and into dance music by Color Me Badd and Bobby Brown, while members of the crowd swarmed the bar and contorted in dated dance steps.
Kaytlynn's face was contorted into a grimace as each step further sapped her strength.
When Mr. Kirk, his face contorted in concentration, slowed near the top of the steps, his colleagues called out "Almost there!" and "A few more!" and then erupted in applause when he reached the landing, triumphant.
"We're dealing with a relationship that's so contorted, it would take another 50 years of incremental steps to pull it apart and reassemble it in a constructive way," said Robert Pastor, a professor of international relations at American University.
Here were first encountered American imports such as the barn dance, then called the military schottische; the Washington Post, a very rapid two-step in march formation; and the cakewalk, which contorted the body to degrees previously unknown.
He leaned against the bronze to take off his shoes, then slid down several steps over his red robe, his muscular, lean body contorted like a rigid embryo.
The second working group would propose steps to reduce the volume of EU legislation, simplify contorted language and provide explanatory memoranda.
So intense was the confrontation that NBC took the unusual step of contorting its schedule by expanding "Friends" from 30 to 40 minutes and inserting a special new assemblage of sketches from "Saturday Night Live" to fill the other 20 minutes of the hour.
If his friend hadn't told him about exercising with a hangover being dangerous, he might have continued, for he felt he was fighting pain with pain, and his face, red and contorted from the physical strain, was testimony to both the late night before and the next step.
