Word: spirals
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...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...
...neighboring Arab regimes fearful that the unrest would spread to their streets and by the increasingly isolated moderates in the Bush Administration eager to clean up the mess in the Middle East. The 17-month-old cycle of killing in Israel and the occupied territories has become a death spiral from which there seems to be no escape. More than 50 people died in a three-day exchange of suicide attacks and air strikes that left even hardened veterans of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict numb with disbelief. As it always does, escalation brought with it the perverse hope that both...
...slated to slice through his home district, creating hundreds of jobs and funneling millions of dollars into rural Hyogo prefecture. It's one of thousands of wasteful highway projects?known as roads to nowhere?that are gradually transforming Japan into a giant parking lot, causing the national deficit to spiral and propping up inefficient, bloated construction companies. This is exactly the sort of scheme Japan needs to curtail if it is going to get its economy back in shape. Reformist Yamaguchi, however, now that he is in office, supports the highway. "Of course I am lobbying the Ministry of Transportation...