Word: spiraling
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...benches to be camping. (Dead Heads, who are apolitical, do not seem to enrage police as hippies did.) By the time the midday sun had warmed the bones of the park-bench bivouackers, the park had become a street fair. T shirts were on sale, decorated with tie-dyed spiral nebulas, skulls and roses (another important symbol to the Dead, who have more symbols than the Elks or the Masons). So were incense, posters, illuminated sweatpants, fly whisks for easy tropical living and magic cookies. "How magic?" the vendor was asked. "Magic enough to get you very high," she said...
Wende's colleague, Lawyer Jan Olszewski, was equally dismayed at the prosecution's failure to find the real instigator of the crime. In a veiled reference to the Soviet Union, Olszewski declared, "This corpse, this blood, was supposed to release a spiral of mutual terror. Who could have had an interest in it? Every child who studies history knows in whose interest Poland's weakness...
...features a cloud of toxic industrial waste, although the author's larger concern is with death as metaphor. As usual, DeLillo mixes black comedy with a ceremonious tone: "The enormous dark mass moved like some death ship in a Norse legend, escorted across the night by armored creatures with spiral wings." The whirly appendages belong to helicopters tracking the monster smudge over Iron City, a small industrial town and home of the College-on-the-Hill...
...national spotlight, causing the FDIC to worry about paying each of the bank's depositors up to $100,000 if the bank should fall, and sending shivers through a banking industry already experiencing the highest number of individual failures since the Great Depression. All of this attention accelerated the spiral as depositors panicked flocking to teller windows to withdraw accounts totaling millions of dollars...
...produces. Walter Mondale wants to cut the pie into thousands of pieces for every interest-group he can think of, while President Reagan wants to make the pie larger for everyone. The issues for the country are serious: will we allow unemployment to rise, the cost of living to spiral, and the risks of foreign coercion of the United States to multiple during the next four years? We say no, and heartily join the vast majority of American in supporting President Reagan's reelection...