Word: spiralled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spiral. You lose money, so you raise prices. This irritates people, so fewer people eat here. So you lose more money," said John H. Hilbert, a third-year Law student and a member of the Law Student Council...
...Spiral of Violence. Cardinal Roy was commenting on a new report to the Vatican, compiled by 61 leading Roman Catholic laymen of Italy, France and Belgium. Their 33-page "black book," entitled Terror and Torture in Brazil, includes numerous accounts of police brutality-hanging prisoners by the hands, electric shocks to the breasts of women and genitals of men, solitary confinement in tiny cells for as long as 40 days...
...northeastern Brazil recounts the "barbarous assassination" of a 28-year-old priest. "What is particularly grave about this crime," he writes, "is the virtual certainty that it was part of a premeditated series." Last week the outspoken prelate visited Pope Paul in Rome to tell him personally about the "spiral of violence" in his country...
Distant Bells. Not all of the environments work as well. An electronic spiral intended by Kinetic Artists Jackie Cassen and Rudi Stern to induce a meditative state is just plain hard on the eyes. Designer Victor Lukens' reflective plastic chair tends to disorient rather than put its occupant at ease. As yet unfinished is what should be the centerpiece of the show-a twelve-foot stroboscopically lighted waterfall. The visitor will crawl through an access tube into a clear plastic enclosure, where he may sit, perfectly dry, while water cascades all around him. "He will feel...