Word: circularity
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...slams the audience with a symbol as if it were a clown's pig bladder. Cocky is pitted against an autocratic upper-class fat cat in a dented top hat named Sir (Cyril Ritchard). Sir makes the rules for the Game of Life, which is played rather like circular hopscotch on a huge disk at stage center. Any time Cocky manages two jumps forward, he is forced to go three jumps or more backward. Arbitrary? Unreasonable? One understands-the game is hopelessly rigged...
...mosaics represent Homeric scenes, Theseus raping Helen, warlike Amazons and two centaurs, one of them curiously a woman. But the most intriguing discovery to date is a large circular structure built about 2,300 years ago. Perhaps a shrine, it is 100 ft. in diameter and is surrounded by three smaller rotundas, each 16 ft. in diameter. No other circular complex of this style has been found anywhere in Greece...
...ordered the firing of Manager Yogi Berra when it bought control of the New York Yankees? No. Did CBS intend to enclose Yankee Stadium with a dome similar to Houston's new Astrodome? Emphatically no. Had CBS bought Comedian Jackie Gleason's $300,000 circular home as "a reducing spa for tired executives?" No, said Paley, it had bought the house to "induce Mr. Gleason to stay on CBS." Paley kept calm, but the audience was clearly irritated. When Paley asked at one point, "Does anyone in this audience have any idea how to handle this situation?", there...
Minimax has gone into Rome with two stores in the last six months, plans four more within two years, including a 66,000-sq.-ft. circular supermarket that will be Europe's largest single food store. The largest store now is also owned by Minimax: its Pryca store in Madrid, which sells TV sets as well as T-bone steaks, also provides shoe repair and coin-operated laundry service. So successful is the store that the chain is already building three more stores in Madrid, two in Barcelona and one in Malaga...
...miles above the earth, then curved down as low as 776 miles. When this original orbit had been analyzed and Early Bird was at an apogee, a signal from the earth fired a small rocket motor to give just enough extra speed to put the satellite into a circular orbit that matched the earth's 24-hour period of rotation. In effect, the intricate electronic package put together by Hughes Aircraft picked a spot high above the equator between Brazil and Africa, and there it hovered, ready to begin its job of pointing the way toward a worldwide communications...