Highlights include a serenade from England to Scotland that devolves into the neurotic rant of a jilted spouse ("It's France, isn't it!"); a punning hymn to the German chancellor ("you're the Simon to my Garferkel/ Angela Merkel"); and a fine twist-in-the-tail track about the duo's no-prisoners approach to public expressions of bigotry.
Toward the end, though, Kalfus redeems "Equilateral" with some fine twists as the narrative becomes darker and more complex, evolving into a more intricate fable, an exploration of man's hubris.
The omission of the question of discrimination is all the more conspicuous because it's the very question that "The Founder" builds, with yet another fine ironic twist, into Kroc's founding vision.
Indeed, one of the finest plot twists of the book has Jim learning that for most of his adventures with Huck he was in fact legally free.
Starring a blue book of Hollywood's finest, "Widows" twists and turns with fist-pumping electricity, indicting capitalism, American politics and racist police without needing a single sermon to drive home its messages ― unless, that is, you count a TED Talk-worthy admonishment from Viola Davis: "We have a lot to do; crying isn't on the list".
The Romney campaign, which has committed $3.4 million to television advertising through early next week, started its version of "Doing Fine" last week, a twist on a 2008 commercial from the Obama campaign that mocked Senator John McCain for uttering the ill-timed phrase "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" as the stock market was plummeting and the economy was collapsing.
It's a fine and solid twist for series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss who faced not only the daunting task of working, for the most part, without a novel, but the increasing wrath of social media.
Twist fine gauge wire into the shape of a reindeer antler.
The former is a fine-tuned Australian twist on Ibsen's The Wild Duck, marked by sharp, tart performances and a keenly evoked rural milieu.
