Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fraction of its imports, and U.S. grants total more than half Libya's annual budget. Rumors rife in Libya of local mismanagement of allied funds are small encouragement to pull out U.S. technicians and let the Libyans spend away on their own. Most of the charges of corruption swirl about a fringe-bearded son of a cousin of King Idris' known as the Black Prince, whose SASCO construction company is currently building a $7,000,000 road that starts 200 miles east of Tripoli and meanders 300 miles through the empty desert to the Sebha oasis...
...club. And to avoid frequent scene changes, he transferred the action in Acts I and III to the outside of the Polka saloon, constructed a typical Hollywood false-front street-all of it heavily anchored down to prevent the set from blowing away in the waspish mountain winds that swirl into the amphitheater every evening...
...week, a new Chairman of the Republic took office: dour, self-effacing Liu Shao-chi (see box). With the announcement, Peking's vast Square of Heavenly Peace resounded to the beating of gongs, the clash of cymbals, the rataplan of exploding firecrackers. Demonstrators marched 110 abreast in a swirl of red banners and colored scarves. The usually gloomy and provincial streets blazed with electric lights strung on eaves and curving roofs; red stars and neon signs shone against the night sky; big, pumpkin-shaped lanterns dangled from the gates of the Imperial City...
Eilshemius' muse was wayward, poetic, and in the end cruel. Critic Duncan Phillips notes that in one picture Eilshemius "symbolically depicted himself as adrift, all alone, in a fragile bark rushed along by the fierce currents of wild, rapid waters which swirl around an island under a witching moon. It is a symbol of all futility and frustration under the Tantalus of beauty and romance. It tells of his endless efforts to land on the island of desire...
Genius is not normal, and it stands exposed to every wind that blows. On some winds Orozco scattered seeds of hate; on others he scattered seeds of love and hope. But even as the winds howl, it is clear that they swirl about an artist who was mountainous...