She had said to him: ‘Oh…a little caviare! A peach!’ a long time before, with the vague under-feeling that the names of such comestibles must convey to her person a charm in the eyes of Caliban.

Later, [Mikhail] Gorbachev asked me: What do you think he is, exactly? / A farmer, I [Shevardnadze] said. A good manager. But if you like, we can de-kulakize him. Then there won't be any farm, milk, or livestock.

dominant gay culture in the United States has often coded Latino gay men as straight trade — heterosexual men who can be picked up for a same-sex encounter.

A twist is accordingly something especially good, and a big twist is the superlative of excellence.