Word: circularity
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...area code for Los Angeles had sprouted seven alternatives, and French phone numbers were 10 digits long, and my friends were stockpiling spouses' names upon their own. Here in Japan, my three-digit postal code spawned two extra digits, and even as I was writing this, a circular arrived to inform me that, as of next February, my tiny rural neighborhood will get 17 new postal codes, all seven digits long...
...restaurant features a bar area decorated with green, aqua and red lamps; booths nestled against windows that are covered by thin neon green curtains; and a huge circular grill in the middle of the dining area...
...they had hitherto only suspected. The new probes not only confirmed these suspicions but also showed that the winds--actually, great bands of plasma slightly warmer than neighboring solar gases--dive deep into the solar interior, itself a mass of gases, then flow back toward the equator, creating a circular gyre reminiscent of Earth's great ocean currents, such as those that sweep the Atlantic and Pacific. "We used to think the inside of the sun was fairly simple," says John Harvey, an astronomer at the Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tuscon, Ariz. "But that was before...
...children in the drawing included Peov. The soldier was forcing them to do something involving the circular device, which she explained. The lines between the outer rim and the center hole were metal blades. The three outer lines were cords held to keep the device steady. When the cord with the ring was pulled, the blades closed around the center hole, like a camera lens. Children caught trying to escape would have their heads put in that hole and be decapitated. Other children, like Peov, were made to operate the device...
...brochures for the minivans are bogus at first glance. Here is a Windstar--or is it a Previa? a Caravan?--parked in the circular drive of an Alpine castle, glistening after a spring shower. The image is idiotic: American marketing at its most cynical. But Husband lingers over the sport-utility brochures. The pages are heavy and slick, almost sensuous, like the leaves of some edible exotic plant. And the pictures! They are familiar to him from the thousands of commercials he saw during the N.B.A. finals. The Jeep Cherokee roars up the perilous incline of a desert mountain. Fearlessly...