Word: arcing
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...skies burned red. Crowds of stone throwers clashed with police, while shadowed figures hurled Molotov cocktails at cars and buses. The rioters were mostly Arab or black, but they were also mostly French, born and bred in the neighborhoods they were setting ablaze. Their anger spread in an arc across northern Paris, just a few miles from the city's glittering heart, as one desolate neighborhood after another joined in the mayhem. Thousands of police and firemen struggled to douse the rebellion and found themselves inflaming it. In one suburb, four shots, a rarity in France, were fired...
...authorities in 1999 when he broke into the house of baseball player Albert Belle, where his ex-girlfriend was staying. In my haste to conjure some painful memories and throw him off his game, I left him wide open from downtown for the triple (word score), beyond the arc, where in a clutch spot Simon rarely misses. At Arizona, he shared the backcourt with future NBA All-Stars Jason Terry and Mike Bibby, yet Simon, for those two weeks in March of ‘97, was the unquestioned hero, dropping 30 on Kentucky in the overtime title game...
...seeing the absolute bottom of the arc of foreign-language films playing in U.S. theaters," says Bingham Ray of October Films. "I love these films and want to support them, but it's a real uphill struggle. You feel like Sisyphus." Ray's company distributed The White Balloon, the lovely Iranian fable that the New York Film Critics judged the best foreign-language film of 1996, but which has grossed less than $1 million in its year's release...
...Arts through February 5. The show is simultaneously a choice selection of Rodin's work, a thorough survey of Claudel's and an intricately woven account of their artistic and romantic interaction. It brings together 155 examples of their art, plus photographs, letters and journal entries, to trace the arc of a heated, exhausting attachment that came to an unhappy end, but not before it left its mark on some of their most enduring work...
...Countess de Maigret, who served for a time as her patron, she could not help sometimes but to produce them with authority. Perseus and the Gorgon, in which the son of Zeus holds high the severed head of Medusa while her winged body collapses in a long arc around his feet, may not be the work of an avant-gardist, but that dynamic torquing line, the complexity of volume and void, are the work of a woman who could bring virtuosity even to what she made for philistine tastes...