Word: knotted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coach leaned back in his chair, clasped his wiry, veiny hands together in a knot-lock and looked down at a few sheets of white paper. Then, as he looked up across the table, the first words out of the coach's mouth were, "Yale...
...route to Albuquerque, New Mexico: Clinton again wandered back to chat with a knot of reporters. This time the topic was primarily mango-chutney ice cream, a San Antonio specialty Clinton loves. Somehow this candidate on the cusp of victory conjured up the macabre memory that his first taste of mango-chutney had come the night before he drove former House majority leader Hale Boggs, campaigning in Texas for McGovern, to the airport for what was to be a fatal airline trip to Alaska...
Harvard then watched what may have been its best effort of the season fall short as Friar forward Lynn Campbell sliced the Gordion knot, scoring with 3:44 left in overtime...
...more vivid or explicit, or better attuned to the fresco-like scale of the canvas. And yet how provisional these dancers seem, compared with their ancestors; how deliberately imperfect, within the brusque signs for arched back, swollen belly, prancing, dragging, reaching. One clue to this is the complicated knot formed by the crossing legs of the second figure from the left, and the hands of the two dancers in front of her. There the circle of the dance breaks; the hands have come apart, they do not touch. Classical art would not show this. Choreographic "imperfection" matches the brusque details...
ASTRONOMERS HAVE LONG SUSPECTED THAT THE Whirlpool galaxy, 20 million light- years away, harbors in its core a black hole, a superdense knot of matter whose gravity is so powerful that even light can't escape. Now a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope has convinced them. The picture, released last week, reveals a giant X at the galaxy's center. The scientists think one arm of the X is a massive, doughnut-shaped cloud of dust swirling around the hole. The doughnut is seen edge on, hiding the black hole from view, but two cone-shaped beams...