This new helmet design can deal with sports’ twists and turns — and protect your brain from head trauma. 🧠 #BerkeleyResearch Story: bit.ly/2NpOSw1
The tie-less leaders of the new Greek government are short of neckwear but not of off-beat policy ideas. The “smart debt engineering” mooted by Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s new finance minister, is a plan to swap lots of existing Greek debt for “GDP-linked bonds”—an old idea whose time may at last have comehttp://econ.st/1E49vQM
Music ReviewInvention and Whimsy, Inspired by a ToyBy STEVE SMITH
Recent performances at the UnCaged Toy Piano Festival celebrated John Cage and the quirks of a certain instrument.
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Stubbornly Holding On Despite Criticism
By KATIE THOMAS
Donkey ball, a quirky twist on basketball in which the human players ride donkeys, has drawn some criticism from animal-welfare groups.
Critics initially dismissed him as an apologist for the disgraced Nixon coterie. But he won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, and for 32 years tenaciously attacked and defended foreign and domestic policies, and the foibles, of seven administrations. Along the way, he incurred enmity and admiration, and made a lot of powerful people squirm.
Two nudes hanging side by side in the show might almost be by different artists. “Reclining Nude” of 1862 is a kind of joke on Titian: a rather loosely painted figure in a brownish atmosphere surrounded by excesses of red velvet drapes whose kewpie-doll knee socks add to her modern quirkiness.
Wikipedia article "Kewpie doll (toy)".
Looking at issues that affect all of our lives, from family values to global responsibility and personal lessons learned to inspirational survival stories, all of the best special projects are here - and with the mix of quirky irreverence that has been part of the i-D vocabulary since its launch by Terry Jones in 1980.
Day Out | Amsterdam
By CAREN OSTEN GERSZBERG
An array of historic and modern shops line the brickwork lanes of the Nine Streets, Amsterdam’s most quirky neighborhood.
THE microwave oven is a quirky appliance. Sure, it cooks and reheats many foods quickly and well, and in containers that can go right to the table or come right from the fridge. But it can also cause a mug of hot water to erupt scaldingly, char nuts and breads on the inside, and blow up eggs and butter.
Yannick Grandmont for The New York Times
Chefs Who Believe in Sticking Close to Home
In Montreal, four quirky restaurants are extensions of their chefs’ tastes and dedication to regional ingredients. Above, the wall-size blackboard menu at Joe Beef.
她有隻健筆，英、法語流利，詞鋒犀利，在西方是替中共政權塗脂抹粉有名的極左人物（apologist）。
Definition of twist and turn
1: to curve or change direction oftenThe road along the coast twists and turns.
2: to move with twisting motions : to be restless and to change position oftenA little boy was twisting and turning in the seat behind me.
apologist
- 音節
- a • pol • o • gist
- 発音
- əpɑ'lədʒist | əpɔ'l-
- apologistの変化形
- apologists (複数形)
[名]
1 （…を）（口頭または文書で）弁明する人；（信仰・主義主張などを）弁護する人((for ...)).
2 （キリスト教の）護教論者.intr.v., squirmed, squirm·ing, squirms.
- To twist about in a wriggling, snakelike motion; writhe.
- To feel or exhibit signs of humiliation or embarrassment.
- The act of squirming.
- A squirming movement.
[Origin unknown.]
squirmer squirm'er n.squirmy squirm'y adj.
quirk noun [C]
an unusual part of someone's personality or habit, or something that is strange and unexpected:
You have to get used to other people's quirks and foibles.
There is a quirk in the rules that allows you to invest money without paying tax.
By some strange quirk/By an odd quirk of fate (= unexpectedly), we ended up on the same train.
noun
verb
Derivatives
quirkish
adjective
adjective
Origin:
early 16th century (as a verb): of unknown origin. The early sense of the noun was 'subtle verbal twist, quibble', later 'unexpected twist'quirky Adjective ━━ a. 気まぐれな; 奇癖のある.
unusual in an attractive and interesting way:
He was tall and had a quirky, off-beat sense of humour.
~ questions.foible Show phonetics
noun [C usually plural]
a strange habit or characteristic that is seen as harmless and unimportant:
We all have our little foibles.
scalding
adjective
1 If a liquid is scalding, it is extremely hot:
scalding tea
scalding hot water
2 If criticism is scalding, it is very strong or fierce.
verb [T] DISAPPROVING
to change information so that it gives the message you want it to give, especially in a way that is dishonest:
This report shows how she twisted the truth to claim successes where none, in fact, existed.
You're twisting my words - that's not what I said at all.
twist
noun [C]
1 a change in the way in which something happens:
The story took a surprise twist today with media reports that the doctor had resigned.
The incident was the latest twist in the continuing saga of fraud and high scandal in banks and stockbroking firms.
But for a cruel twist of fate/fortune, he could now be running his own business.
There's an unexpected twist in/to the plot towards the end of the film.
2 a complicated situation or plan of action:
the twists and turns of fate
It has proved very difficult to unravel the twists and turns and contradictions of the evidence.
Offbeat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Offbeat, originally a music term meaning "not following the standard beat", which has also become a general synonym for "unconventional" or "unusual", may ...
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