Word: dervishness
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...group of fans, the Church of Unlimited Devotion, had members, known as "Spinners," who performed dervish maneuvers at Dead shows, took vows of celibacy and purported to worship Garcia as a divinity. He tepidly indulged the Spinners, once telling Magical Blend magazine, "I'll put up with it until they come for me with the cross and nails...
...more probing and analytical, Nagano wields his baton with the alan of a lion tamer cracking a whip. His lank, dark hair flies, his arms soar skyward, and a broad smile crosses his face: the laid-back, almost diffident surfer dude is suddenly transformed into the happiest dervish in the world...
...where he makes public speeches about tax policy and then onto the sets of Sunday morning talk shows. The Senator from Oregon appears to be at the pinnacle of his career. But his dignified demeanor is at odds with the image he conjured up two years ago: a whirling dervish of sexual voracity who planted his lips on the mouths of shocked female elevator attendants, secretaries and lobbyists, snatched at women's clothes or stuck his hands under their shirts...
...Jack Palladino at a reported cost of more than $100,000 to investigate women who were making claims about relationships with Clinton. So protective of Clinton was Wright during the campaign that other top campaign officials were offended by her proprietary attitude. Her campaign style was abrasive and included dervish-like activity, crying jags, yelling fits and chain smoking. Not ready for prime time, she was pushed out of Clinton's inner circle by the time the transition began...
...Grohl. Cobain married Love in 1992, when the band was first peaking on the charts, when she was already pregnant with Frances Bean, and when both parents had already developed heroin habits (Love claims to have kicked hers immediately after finding out she was pregnant). "It's a whirling dervish of emotion, all these extremes of fighting and loving each other at once," is how Cobain described the marriage last year, proudly showing off nasty fingernail scratches on his back...