Word: circularized
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...Baltimore, there was even more melancholy vandalism. Upon a recent midnight dreary, someone entered the Westminster Presbyterian Church graveyard and pried an 18-in. circular bronze medallion sculpture of Edgar Allan Poe's head from the shaft marking his grave. Stéphane Mallarmé was being too optimistic when he wrote The Tomb of Edgar Poe: "Let this granite at least forever be a boundary/To the foul flights of scattered blasphemy in the future...
Shulman's invention is just a bit more than a pipedream. The human brain insistently finds patterns where none exist. With this in mind, Shulman built his toy, a circular arrangement of Christmas-tree lights. Plugged in, they flash on and off in colors-red, yellow and blue-but in no rhythmic pattern. Still, the mesmerized viewer, if he turns on some music, may discover a pattern that matches the music's beat. If that happens, off he goes on a drugless trip. Or so hope the customers who ordered some 5,000 Op-Tickles, which are grossly...
...strike is doomed to failure, and small wonder. James chases after Linda until there is little time left for political ideas. Finally the cops wade in heavily with tear gas, and the kids, all neatly assembled on the floor in an intricate and improbable circular flower design, are soundly beaten and busted. Although this is the strongest scene in a lackluster film, it will vastly amuse any one who has ever been gassed. The film shows the kids sitting for minutes while great billows of gas waft around them. They cough, but they do not move, a feat that...
...with fear. But the flight surgeon dutifully recites the Air Force manual's imaginary Catch No. 22: Naturally, anyone who wants to get out of combat isn't really crazy. So supernaturally, anyone who says he is too crazy to keep flying is too sane to stop. On such circular reasoning rests the plot, the dialogue, and indeed the film's essence...
...largest hotel operator, is also building the 1,000-room Melia Castilla. in Madrid. Some governments follow Berlin's example by giving tax concessions on tourist construction. Results vary: 25 hotels are under way in Singapore while three are rising in Rio de Janeiro, including the circular Nacional, a 38-story tower...