Word: spaghetti
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...primitive, restless filling of space that spread tendrilous patterns across armor, manuscripts and utensils. The worldly, warring Emperor, who inspired the epic Song of Roland, brought back the three-dimensional image of man. Carved in ivory book covers, illuminated on paper (see opposite page), the human form struggled through spaghetti-like barbarian curlicues and unearthly Eastern symbolism. Carolingian images of Christ are distinguishable from Eastern icons by the absence of a beard, the presence of youthful muscles...
...they are really in until they have spent an evening or part of it at Menotti's 17th century palazzo. Marvels Menotti: "I am regularly faced by an avalanche of princes, princesses, dukes and duchesses, who swarm over my house in their wonderful clothes, eating, drinking and cooking spaghetti in my kitchen. Spoleto was conceived as a small ivory turret, but has turned into a Tower of Babel...
First they assassinated the Renault, brutally sacrificing it with ax and pitchfork. Then a girl in a white brassiere and red bikini climbed onto the car's crushed roof, where a scrawny youth massaged her with wads of spaghetti. The girl plucked pasta from her shining body and flipped it at the audience; the audience...
...open up the remote interior. The government awarded routes to anyone with a wing and a prayer, encouraged the lines to stay aloft with subsidies, artificially low fuel prices, and special exchange rates on planes and parts. By 1953, no fewer than 20 scheduled airlines crisscrossed Brazil with a spaghetti-like network of routes. There are still six domestic carriers, including three with international routes. On some routes, as many as five lines compete for the same passengers, with the result that just about everybody loses money. The subsidies, emergency loans and other bailouts cost the Brazilian government uncounted millions...
...rush hours, though, it sometimes hits a peak of 120 p.p.m. "It is most exciting," says Haagen-Smit. "You get behind another car, and the pointer goes way up, especially where you have a slowdown of traffic." Top readings come at the nightmarish interchanges, where curling roadways tangle like spaghetti on a fork and hundreds of car engines pant in frustration. "Tunnels and depressions concentrate the carbon monoxide," says the professor, "but in that interchange area it's really stinking...