Word: maelstrom
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Slovenia, which gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, has remained largely unaffected by the maelstrom that has since plunged other regions of the Balkans into conflict over the past several years...
Slovenia, which gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, has remained largely unaffected by the maelstrom that has since plunged the Balkans into conflict over the past several years...
...second piece, "Maelstrom", choreographed by Mark Morris, was an abrupt change from the previous piece. Performed to a Beethoven Trio, the piece was quite classical compared to the previous one. With romantic costumes and a delicately clouded sky as a backdrop, the piece was classically Mark Morris, with its use of repetition, bringing themes and elements of the first two movements into the third, resulting in a harmonious cyclical effect...
...conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism. The Pope and his political counterparts in France and Spain are menacing the country, while the Catholic "Bloody" Queen Mary's public burnings of Protestants (presented in lurid excess in the opening of the film) only intensify the conflict. Into the middle of this maelstrom, Kapur places Elizabeth: young, innocent, with flowing hair and a penchant for dancing the volta. There may be something tenacious and unreadable in Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth, but Kapur doesn't help much, filming the young royal in pastel gowns with a bevy of handmaidens and a robust beau, prancing...
...Spirit Day at his school, and his teacher had warned the transplanted New Yorker against wearing his native colors. When he showed up in his jersey anyway, she promptly--and according to his father, appropriately--made him change his uniform. The local act of defiance turned into a media maelstrom when a New York paper picked up the story. The school began receiving harassing calls, while the Dunwoodys' answering machine recorded messages on behalf of David Letterman, Rosie O'Donnell and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. "I thought it was a cute little story," says Brendan's father George. "But then...