Word: spiraling
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...peace prize or an achievement award; it's an acknowledgment of the nominee's influence over the events that have dominated the week's headlines. And as hundreds of Israeli tanks rolled back into the cities of the West Bank and the Middle East crisis threatened to spiral out of control, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was that person. He appeared to hold in his hands the fate of the entire region - and perhaps the fate of the U.S. war on terrorism...
According to Lewis, blaming others for the condition of the Middle East leads to a pointless spiral of conspiracy theories...
...inspiration to Joan Miro. His late gestural paintings, with their thick brooding darkness and emphatic signs, such as Secret Letters, 1937, meant a great deal to American modernists like Jackson Pollock and Adolf Gottlieb. All in all, a tremendous amount of Klee's DNA was wound into the spiral of modernism, not only from the paintings themselves but also from his teaching theories, in which he obsessed about that most mysterious of subjects, creativity itself...
...plot is far less important than the sheer visual spectacle. Small vignettes are linked with anecdotal ease by the music, which forms an integral part of the action and sometimes threatens to become the film’s greatest star. The film is the way it appears to spiral seemingly out of control in a plethora of directions, perhaps stemming from the fact that much of the movie was improvised...
...these discussions. They must ensure that the plan does not devolve into an unreasonable ultimatum hoisted upon unwilling parties. And before anyone can move forward, all leaders in the Middle East-especially Yassir Arafat and Ariel Sharon—must do everything in their power to stop the spiral of violence that continues to engulf the region...