The Nashville Metro airport is a scene awash with marching bands, live newcasters, security police,
twirlers, the Chamber of Commerce and an adoring crowd of fans for the arrival of Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakely in her film debut), the reigning lady of country - western music, who «
has been away for special treatment at the Baltimore Burn Center» following an accident.
He could
have easily been an arch moustache
twirler of a villain, but Hardy gives him a sort of cowardly charisma that makes him far more persuasive than a man like that ever should be.
Two flash fictions which
have provided me with significant incentive and inspiration are Jane Martin's «
Twirler» and Raymond Carver's «Popular Mechanics,» two dissimilar performances comparible primarily for their emotional impact and their inclusion in the 1986 American Sudden Fiction.