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  • The Archimedes Screw is still used today for pumping liquids and solids, such as coal and grain.

    Five Cool Inventions by Archimedes | myFiveBest 2010

  • Many in L.A. thought The Turn of the Screw was a curious choice to cap off an opera season--which usually ends with something big and Italian instead of small and psychological.

    Marc Porter Zasada: Opera: Brilliant Turn of the Screw Ends L.A. Season Marc Porter Zasada 2011

  • Many in L.A. thought The Turn of the Screw was a curious choice to cap off an opera season--which usually ends with something big and Italian instead of small and psychological.

    Marc Porter Zasada: Opera: Brilliant Turn of the Screw Ends L.A. Season Marc Porter Zasada 2011

  • The horror at the heart of "The Turn of the Screw" is the revelation that there are places even a great story cannot take you.

    The Hazards of Fairyland Frank Cottrell Boyce 2011

  • Many in L.A. thought The Turn of the Screw was a curious choice to cap off an opera season--which usually ends with something big and Italian instead of small and psychological.

    Marc Porter Zasada: Opera: Brilliant Turn of the Screw Ends L.A. Season Marc Porter Zasada 2011

  • Henry James is underrated as a mystery writer—The Turn of the Screw is a brilliant mystery.

    The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010

  • And to say that I too wrote a piece a radio play that never quite got commissioned and was told by a would-be producer that the parallels with The Turn of the Screw were a bit clunky.

    My novels #7: Empire of Death DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • My first thought after reading about how the author of Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, and Turn of the Screw was a comic as well as an ironic realist was, There's no telling where some people will find their their yuks, and I remembered my old teacher, Leslie Epstein, saying to me once, "The Russians think Dostoevsky's a gas."

    The not so tragic muse 2005

  • My first thought after reading about how the author of Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, and Turn of the Screw was a comic as well as an ironic realist was, There's no telling where some people will find their their yuks, and I remembered my old teacher, Leslie Epstein, saying to me once, "The Russians think Dostoevsky's a gas."

    Lance Mannion: 2005

  • The quote comes from his new book, uncompromisingly entitled Screw Business as Usual.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Geoffrey Lean 2011

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