Word: circularity
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Tying this together was lead guitarist Brad Shepherd, who managed to out-Hoodoo his fellow Gurus by sporting large circular earrings, a necklace of some unidentifiable carnivore's teeth and, most evocative of all, a cockney chimneysweep's top hat that could have been stolen from Charles Nelson Riley's Hoodoo himself. Shepherd dominated the stage, bounding forth to let the kids up front tousle his hair and producing a series of guitar sounds clever enough to overcome many of the Gurus dumber lyrics...
...what the underground megamachine might accomplish is more boggling still: it would serve as a circular iron-and-steel racetrack for beams of subatomic particles, traveling at fantastic speeds, that would be smashed together in an effort to mimic conditions at the earliest moments of the universe. It would enable physicists to probe fundamental mysteries about the origin of matter and energy and could help them achieve a long-sought goal: to weave the four known forces of nature--electromagnetism, gravity, the weak force (responsible for radioactive decay) and the strong force (which holds atomic nuclei together)--into a single...
...colossal accelerators that seem to be proliferating almost as rapidly as the novel particles they produce. In these machines, electrons or protons (and usually their antimatter counterparts, positrons or antiprotons) are spurred to nearly the speed of light and tremendous energy levels by radio waves and steered on their circular course by magnets. The monumental girth of the new machines stems from limitations in the power of the guiding magnets; bigger circular tracks have gentler curves and thus require less intense magnetic fields to keep the particles on their required path...
...headquarters of U.S. efforts to intervene in foreign- exchange markets, the fortress-like Federal Reserve Bank of New York is the front line. On the seventh floor of the bank's Italianate building on Wall Street, six currency traders carry out the Treasury's instructions. Hunched over a circular desk crowded with jangling phones, they buy and sell dollars at U.S. banks while glancing regularly at overhead monitors that flash currency transactions. "The Fed people just love intervening," says a former Treasury official. "They're like little kids with...
...finally abandoned all attempts at stylistic harmony in his design for the New State Gallery in Stuttgart, which opened last year. The exquisitely proportioned classic entrance hall is assaulted by a bilious green Pirelli rubber floor covering and the gaudily painted steel frame of the elevator shaft. The circular interior courtyard, with sensuous marble nymphs basking in the glow of golden travertine and sandstone walls, is assaulted by vulgar pink and blue pipes that serve as handrails for a spiraling ramp...