Word: semicircular
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Grafton’s décor is understated, with large—and outrageously comfortable—black leather booths and muted tan walls. A large semicircular bar, which fills up considerably as the evening goes on, sweeps away to the right as one enters. The restaurant is separated from the bar by a guard rail and features the same selection of drinks as well as extensive lunch and dinner menus...
...unsympathetic to the woman, her amejo and kokujo peers are downright harsh. Some gossip that the victim dated the defendant; others speculate that her friends shamed her into calling it a rape. "We amejo feel the girl was in the wrong," says Maki Oshiro, 27, sitting in a semicircular booth at a hip-hop club called Else, one of a number of spots frequented by black U.S. servicemen. "She probably didn't know how to behave. We're here because we know it's where the Americans gather. These guys aren't scary. We know how to handle them...
...That's why it's hard for many of the women to swallow the rape charge against Woodland. "We amejo feel the girl was in the wrong," says Maki Oshiro, 27. She and a girlfriend are sitting in a semicircular booth at Else, sipping cocktails and watching the dance floor. "She probably didn't know how to behave. We're here because we know it's where the Americans gather. These guys aren't scary; we know how to handle them." She mentions Lucie Blackman, the English woman murdered last summer outside Tokyo; a Japanese businessman is being held...
...point in the tour the bus stops at Catedral de Sao Sabastiao do Rio de Janeiro, a modern cathedral built in 1960 that looks like a huge brown traffic cone. Inside, the pews are semicircular in shape, radiating from the center like wooden ripples from a stone thrown in a pond. In the 1800s, despite the supression of Afro-Brazilian religions, followers of such faiths would secretly worship West African deities during Roman Catholic rites. For example, someone might act as if they were praying to the Virgin Mary when they were really praying to Iemanja, the goddess...
Dizziness can usually be traced to the body's master balance system, the semicircular canals located in the inner ear. This delicate and complicated stabilizing mechanism can be disrupted by everything from viral infections to structural injuries--as well as the slowed reflexes and lowered blood circulation that are a natural result of aging. Nothing can be done about that...