Word: labyrinthes
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...years, nobody has built anything quite like Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, the world's largest privately owned business-and-entertainment center. With its labyrinth of underground shopping arcades, sunken plaza, theaters, television studios, 25 restaurants, 70 retail stores and 50,000 daytime inhabitants of 16 slab-sided office buildings, it remains the quintessence of skyscraper civilization. Last week a combine including two Rockefeller brothers -President David of New York City's Chase Manhattan Bank and Governor Winthrop of Arkansas-brought forth plans to build a similar, if smaller, office-hotel-and-cultural complex a continent away, close...
Bravely, Britain's Anthony Burgess, novelist (A Clockwork Orange) and Joyce scholar (Re Joyce), has threaded the labyrinth, determined to demonstrate that Finnegans Wake is more than just a grammarian's funeral. He has reduced the text by about two-thirds, added an introduction that is admirable for clarity, good sense and erudition, and has placed commentaries here and there to help any dog-Latinist through the Joycean style. Even so, the plain reader (if such exists) will soon find himself in waters deeper than the River Liffey...
...idea of a boot with a rubber bottom attached to a leather top. From that inspiration came the famous "Maine Hunting Shoe"-which a hunter, Bean later boasted, "might like better than his wife." Once in business, Bean gradually expanded into other lines, and his factory grew into a labyrinth of makeshift additions and rickety dumbwaiters...
...detailed plans for the Viet Cong suicide attack on Tan Son Nhut Airport last Dec. 4, typewriters, medical supplies, officers' sidearms and even a small cemetery. There were a few Viet Cong defenders left behind, and the G.I.s, equipped with silencer-mounted .38 pistols, pursued them through the labyrinth. After exploring the maze for 1,000 yds., the tunnel rats came up and turned the task over to units that pumped nausea gas through the system, then set about blasting it to dust...
Mitford's monarch was a bit of a monster, and although the term would have been unthinkable to a regime based on blood, he was a self-made monster; he lived like the Minotaur, that legendary prince of Knossos, in the center of his own labyrinth...