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  • Truman Capote's malice included 'tableturning': hurt them before they hurt you.

    Strange, If Tru James Campbell 2011

  • Callie KhouriOscar-winning screenwriter of "Thelma and Louise," her tableturning road-movie fable tapped into a powerful current of female rage.

    The Newsweek 100 2008

  • ‘My opinion, ’ answered Levin, ‘is only that this tableturning simply proves that educated society—so called—is no higher than the peasants.

    Chapter XIV. Part I 1917

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