Word: labyrinth
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...National Gallery has installed it all magnificently-the staff spent a year at it, studied scale drawings of the objects, and remodeled the whole ground floor of the museum to make a rewarding labyrinth of 34 sections, corresponding to the 34 excavation sites...
...imagine a more delightful revival than that mounted by the New Phoenix Repertory Company. Harold Prince has directed it with a marvelously light touch, and the cast bestows elegance on the incessant sexual innuendo. To unravel the plot would be as tricky as negotiating the Minotaur's labyrinth, but it remains understandable throughout the evening...
...outward appearances, Colby is unsuited for dirty tricks. "I'd call him an enlightened cold warrior," says a CIA officer. "But remember that this business is cold." In 1971, Colby went back to the CIA labyrinth in Langley...
...then endorsed by no less a conservative than Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. Designed as a pilot program, the campaign and its response have provided a representative sample of what-and who-is bugging citizens all over the U.S. The most common complaints concerned the difficulty of penetrating the bureaucratic labyrinth, only to find a Minotaur at the end. Almost as numerous have been insoluble hassles with billing computers and instances in which a would-be buyer was turned down because a credit bureau provided a report based on unfavorable but unchecked information. (Some credit-bureau employees admitted that investigators...
...time, little more. Life in the Indian district of the city is a resurrection of the ancient customs of the small villages of the altiplano. Without this sprawling marketplace to serve as both an economic and social center, the migrating peasants would be even more completely lost in the labyrinth of urban life...