Word: spiraling
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...participants rushed off to the back, returning moments later with a round board used to enlarge the wheel’s surface for bigger projects. Soon after, while watching Barnard manipulate the clay, one observer marveled cryptically to another, “look at how he uses the spiral there, brings it in and pushes it out again...
LONG BEFORE THE Aviator, Martin Scorsese was making epics about men with brutal allure who win the big prize, then spiral into dementia. This 1980 film (available alone or in a four-film set of prime Scorsese features) still packs a wallop as maybe the finest of all boxing dramas. For its silver-anniversary edition, the director has added six fascinating mini-documentaries and three audio tracks with no fewer than 13 commentators (including the film's subject, Jake La Motta, now 83). But the movie stands on its own, undefeated. It's psychodrama with grand-opera intensity...
...SPIRAL-BOUND By Aaron Renier With an ensemble cast straight from a box of Animal Crackers, this delightful tale of self-discovery is the first major work by extraordinary newcomer Aaron Renier. (Summer...
...TRICKED By Alex Robinson From the cartoonist of Box Office Poison, comes a tale of six people -- a reclusive rock legend, a heartbroken waitress, a counterfeiter, an obsessive crank, a lost daughter and a backstabbing lover -- whose lives spiral in upon each other. (Summer...
...song consists of Yoshimi’s lone voice beautifully singing a wordless jazz riff. Her sustained final note fades into a rising tide of chimes and deep tribal drums that steadily pound away as metallic and organic percussive noise sounds throb in the background and spiral back and forth between the stereo channels. It seems strange to describe a 23 minute experimental-acoustic track as “sparse” and “restrained,” but both of these adjectives are apt to describe this, given the context of the recent V8rdom material and especially...