Consumer confidence, the chief gauge for determining how willing people are to spend, has twisted up and then down in the nearly three weeks since the attacks.
He has twisted up tracks by everyone from U2 to Ice Cube and soundtracked the Oceans 11 trilogy and Steve McQueen's Hunger.
"He spent the whole flight pacing in a circle, so his headset wire would get twisted up, and he had to unplug and uncurl it," said Dr. Dunham, who is now at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.
Her stomach had twisted on itself, pulled up into her chest, and become trapped — a condition known as a gastric volvulus.
The Portuguese had twisted again with his line-up, starting with Paulinho as his most advanced central midfielder and giving Nacer Chadli his first minutes in the league since late September on the left, which seemed a big call and was not entirely rewarded.
Warming up in Antigua last fall, he had twisted his knee and couldn't play against England.
My hair had been twisted up all day, to ensure that my twist-out would be on point.
What Ryan catches so well is the internal response to external disaster: there's a queasy, fatalistic lack of surprise among the villagers that the bubble of good fortune has burst, twisted up with "the whole mad Irish country thing" of fearing being taken for a fool, and the bitter pleasure of being proved right by disaster.
To have been twisted up in it, controlled by it, bent and helpless like a tied tree!
Even the Economist, usually sympathetic to business, has twisted the knife, summing up that Goldman is "greedy until proven guilty".
