Russian twist

It is the American dream of upward mobility, with a few Russian twists.

And so capitalist health care is taking another route here - with a distinctly egalitarian Russian twist.

Anyway, it’s a nice little vignette of hedge fund woes - with a Russian twist.

The phrase Russian Twist can be used to indicate a special case that applies to Russia.

For people looking for a detox with a distinctly Russian twist, ice swimming is for you.

The Mason Twist is a more advanced (difficult) version of the Russian twist.

"A lot of these pieces have a peculiar Russian twist to them," Mr. Lanmon said.

Russian twist: The trainee leans back to around 45 degrees and balances with the knees held at 90 degrees from the torso.

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In a typically Russian twist, the owners of that rival company are BP's new partners in the deal announced this week.

The Russian Twist is a type of exercise that is used to work the abdomen muscles by performing a twisting motion on the abdomen.

Though maybe I can go down to the kitchen and get enough for a Style section piece on how they do the canap6's with a Russian twist....

During an ab workout in Coach Mode, the band didn't recognize half of my Russian Twist reps about midway through the workout.

Kara are a folk music group from Hertfordshire, England, whose music has been called "spirited acoustic folk with a Russian twist".

There was no one to oppose him as he moved along a hallway decorated with erotic paintings that resembled outtakes from the Kama Sutra, with a Russian twist.

The word is syur, short for surrealism but with a Russian twist combining the intellectual playfulness of Dali with Rube Goldberg solutions for monstrous logistical problems.

In the early Nineties, Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, and discovers a knack for putting a distinctively Russian twist on Western-style ads.

Tree – When used in conjunction with a resistance band, trees are good for standing rows, Russian twists, and most other exercises it’s possible to do on a cable machine in a gym.

Another drama about the gap between rich and poor, Elena is a film noir with a contemporary Russian twist: its scheming femme fatale is a modest, stocky, 60-year-old housewife (Nadezhda Markina).

Aristocratic Russians of the time had commercial and cultural connections with France, and many upper-class Russians employed French cooks, who were always looking for ways to give French dishes a Russian twist.

In a classically Russian twist, Grigorovich first received the invitation to return to the theatre at the funeral last month of his wife, Natalia Bessmertnova, the legendary ballerina whose name means immortal in Russian.

As Russian-speaking customers nibbled from large wooden sushi boats on a recent evening, Mr. Podolnyy said that the sushi, made by a Taiwanese chef who adds Russian twists to the food - like black caviar - is selling like mad.

"Venezuelans believe they should have privileged access to things that are imported," Mr. Hurtado continued, explaining how unusual sounding names, often with an American or Russian twist, climbed in popularity during the oil boom of the 1970s when Venezuela was flush with cash for imports.

Not only can it make that plank or crunch more challenging, it also ups the ante on standing abdominal work such as the Russian twist, demonstrated here by celebrity trainer and group fitness instructor Amy Dixon, who uses the move on her "Give Me 10 Core Cuts" DVD.