Word: spiraling
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Smash, released for Nintendo 64 in 1999, pits well-known characters from a variety of classic Nintendo games against each other in a free-for-all melee. Breaking with standard Nintendo narrative form, Luigi uppercuts Kirby, who in turn spiral-kicks Mario. Up to four human competitors can man the controls in this gruesome battle...
...Spiral or not, Morris hauled it in for his second score of the day, giving the Crimson a 28-10 lead with six minutes to play in the third...
...fall ritual as timeworn as buying spiral notebooks and neglecting to vote: asking how much lower TV's moral limbo dance will go. Is TV becoming a nonstop Mardi Gras of skanks flashing themselves for trinkets? Is any broadcaster still interested in programs that a whole family can watch? The answers are yes--and yes. The former is obvious if you have seen the pixelated nudity on Big Brother 3 and Dog Eat Dog. But a sizable minority of the fall's new programs are, shockingly, about families working out problems with love and clean dialogue...
Administration officials say they're studying the idea. But other Security Council members are wary of arming inspectors. A senior British diplomat says the Iraqi army would probably treat military-backed inspectors as a hostile force. "You can begin an arms spiral," says the official. "Where does it end?" The answer, as in so many scenarios involving Iraq, is war. --By Romesh Ratnesar. With reporting by Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington and Stewart Stogel/U.N...
...Osama bin Laden and the other radical militants of jihad, Sept. 11, 2001, was a gigantic provocation, a great blast meant to free their movement from the spiral of political decline that had ensnared it since the early 1990s. But if the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon demonstrated remarkable technological, financial and practical agility, they did not achieve the political expansion the militants had sought--quite the contrary. The extremist supporters of the U.S. attacks have posted a disastrous record during the past year. In their principal objective--to mobilize the Muslim masses behind a victorious jihad...