Loosening the ties of chronology, Kesey achieves extraordinary effects by twisting time frames together, so that within the same paragraph, he can simultaneously relate the "now" of the narrative, the narrator's memories, and historical events.
My favorite scene is when Doctor Strange discovers how to warp and twist time.
Government officials have accused Hazare of twisting time-honoured protest tactics to subvert the legislative process and force elected officials to bow to his own agenda.
Yet, through it all, the life living thread, At times twisted, other times frayed, survives.
The first refrain-pair recurs in the fifth stanza, and comes back a third, final time with a new twist: "Time was away and she was here".
This model divides the life-span from the beginning of adjuvant treatment until death into three time segments corresponding to distinct health states: Tox (time with toxicity), TWiST (time without symptoms and toxicity) and Rel (time after systemic relapse).
We used the Q-TWiST model, which divides the lifespan of the patients from the beginning of adjuvant treatment until death into three time segments corresponding to distinct health states: TOX (time with toxicity from adjuvant treatment), TWiST (time without reported symptoms of treatment or disease), and REL (time from first relapse until death) (Goldhirsch et al, 1989).
The health states most commonly used for Q-TWiST analyses of cancer treatment studies include: toxicity (TOX), time spent with toxic effects of study treatment; TWiST, time period without either symptoms of disease progression or toxicity; and relapse (REL), time following disease progression until death or end of follow-up (Cole et al, 2001).
In an Olympic first, Valenta soared, twisted five times and landed the jump with a slight slip.
"My arm has been twisted 17 times from Sunday," Massa declared.
