Word: labyrinthitis
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...audience remained mournfully silent for an hour. In Masks, there was so much comic facemaking that the occasion literally turned into an orgy of laughter. Occasionally, Halprin's mythical world makes its own social commentary. In Maze, for example, the participants first filed docilely through a plastic labyrinth. Then they inexplicably destroyed it. Finally, after much indecision and floundering, they created an entirely new one. Explains Halprin: "I try to deal with ideas that are very common, basic and ordinary-sexuality, conflict, bewilderment, the sharing of tragedy...
...candlelit tree, the party joins in singing a carol or one of Luther's mighty hymns. Then Papa-head thrown back, fingers marching over the keys in a steady, stately rhythm-begins to improvise, outlining a succession of daring harmonies, guiding the simple theme through a contrapuntal labyrinth of variations. The melody emerges transformed: elaborate, yet plain; passionate, yet rigorously logical. It is a prayer to God in sound...
...morning last week, 99 coal miners on the midnight-to-8-a.m. "cateye" shift were working the rich bituminous veins of the Consolidation Coal Co.'s No. 9 mine in northern West Virginia. Suddenly, deep in the earth, an explosion thundered through the eight-mile-long labyrinth of shafts and tunnels. Shock waves rippled outward for miles, jolting the Marion County mining community into frightened wakefulness. At daybreak, thick clouds of greasy black smoke billowed 150 ft. into the grey morning...
...FIRST CIRCLE, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Using a model prison as an allegory for Soviet society, Russia's greatest living novelist constructs an endless labyrinth of despair...
...most formidably inaccessible places is the labyrinth of arteries inside the brain. But at the latest meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, Dr. Sadek K. Hilal demonstrated a catheter with a magnetic tip that "swims" through small and tortuous arteries and can be guided to the exact spot that the radiologist or neurologist wants to reach...