Word: maelstrom
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Normally my family goes to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving (this would have been trip number 17!), but the pop culture maelstrom of South Florida was too hard to resist. In between lying on the beach or carousing around Coconut Grove, my older brother and I would go looking for election protests... Speaking of election protests, I think those "Sore / Loserman" posters are wonderfully clever... With all the recount frenzy, it looks like everybody wants a do-over. The Backstreet Boys are calling for a recount of CD sales after their first week tallies for Black and Blue just narrowly missed...
...major airports in case the president wanted to visit cities outside of the capital. But, amid concerns over security and fears at offending unvisited cities, the White House opted to visit only Abuja. Clinton and his daughter stepped off Air Force One early Saturday and were welcomed by a maelstrom of three tribal groups of whooping, whirling dancers - including a pair of midgets - in native garb, accompanied by pounding drums and the driving lilt of wooden flutes...
...Petersen's film isn't The Sixth Sense or The Crying Game. It is based on a No. 1 nonfiction best seller. So you may already know what happened to Captain Billy Tyne and the crew of the Andrea Gail when it was caught in the famous North Atlantic maelstrom in 1991. And if you don't, does it matter? Knowing the ending didn't keep many moviegoers from seeing Titanic...
...Crimson is not the most welcoming environment on this campus. Its offices on 14 Plympton Street tend to attract undergraduates who are somewhat rough around the edges. An article in GQ magazine in the late 1980s described the atmosphere at the paper as a maelstrom of egos and ambition. To a great extent, this remains true to this day. There are not too many warm fuzzy feelings floating about...
...light is a legitimate tactic of criticism. But, for some reason, those at yesterday's address felt compelled to employ what I can only describe as a carpet-bombing approach. Rather than rationally probe Buchanan's extremely vulnerable ideas, each questioner, in their turn, would simply let out a maelstrom: "Mr. Buchanan, in 1977 you wrote 'x' about the Jews. In 1983 you wrote 'y' about black people. In 1986 you said 'z' about women. Please respond." The effect, and apparently the intention, was not to rightly illustrate the flaws in Buchanan's outlook, but merely to assail him with...