Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spiral Staircase (RKO-Radio), a murder mystery, knowingly paced by Director Robert Siodmak and shrewdly acted by an expert cast, including Ethel Barrymore, is choice, eerie entertainment...
...portrait of his mistress Jeanne Hebuterne (see cut), who, big with child, committed suicide by jumping from a fifth floor window, after Modigliani died. From her wide, red-skirted hips to the top of her brown hair, the artist had turned his mistress into a slow, serpentine spiral, given her an other-worldly beauty which would be horrible in real life. Like El Greco, Modigliani liked to stretch people out of human proportion. He graced Madame Hebuterne with the neck and shoulders of a swan. The small, vacant eyes and ski-run nose looked less than human, gave her face...
...Price ceilings cannot be lifted to permit wage rises, for then the worker would get no real benefit and an inflationary spiral would be started...
Then the current in the coils begins to fall. A secondary magnetic field deflects the electrons from their circular course. They spiral inward and hit a tungsten "target." Out bursts...
...added: "There is no reason why New York should keep on building with doors and windows and separate floor slabs one above the other.'' His building has only two doors (both on the outside; none between rooms), one long spiral window, which winds like the floor in gradually expanding, gradually ascending circles. The museum's wide-open interior is lighted from a dome of pyrex tubing...