Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parisian settings, the picture features muted blue-green backgrounds splashed with hot pinks, burnt oranges and yellows as Lautrec's lonely little figure hobbles down Montmartre's cobblestone streets, or as the cancan dancers come on in the heat and haze of the Moulin Rouge in a swirl of black silk stockings and white lace petticoats. At its visual best, the picture is a Lautrec painting come to life: it has the nervous, whip-cracking line, the absinthe bite, the very color of corruption of Lautrec's Paris...
...first island was named, looked strangely like the great glacial ice-foot that puzzled Peary at the turn of the century. But if it was Peary's giant ice-foot, it was circling slowly across the top of the world in the sea currents that swirl through the Arctic. It might make an ideal, stable platform for scientific observation...
...every 2,000 years." Reporters found that Lawsonomy was sweepingly billed as "the study of everything," based on 47 principles set forth in the dozens of books of which Lawson is the author. All life, according to Lawsonomy, operates according to the laws of "maneuverability, penetrability, and zigzag-and-swirl...
...pictures showed the sun darkened near the horizon, supposedly shortly after noon on Oct. 13, 1917. Thousands of people who had gathered that day, on the same spot where three Portuguese children said they had seen visions of the Virgin Mary, declared that they had seen the noonday sun swirl and dip. The pictures were evidence of the miracle, said L'Osservatore, since they were of "rigorously authentic origin" and had been snapped by a witness who "succeeded in fixing the exceptional scene." Last week, L'Osservatore changed its mind, it now doubted the authenticity of the pictures...
...surrealist" shouldn't frighten you off. With no more than a New Yorker-level of knowledge of Freud, a little patience for modern music and art, and the least bit of initial curiosity, this quite amazing motion picture will soon sweep you up and carry you along in a swirl of color and sound without bewildering you hardly...