Word: swirl
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There is one other element recognizable from our own time: a serial killer is at work. He (she, perhaps?) is a slasher who abducts and mutilates boy prostitutes and escapes over rooftops. One observer proposes the startling notion that a misty swirl of radical, unsettling new theories about the workings of the human mind could be used by detectives to create a / psychological profile of the murderer. The man who offers this theory is an alienist (people who commit bizarre acts are said to be alienated from their right minds), Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, once a student of William James...
DEEP FOREST IS THE PRODUCT OF a global village in which the natives are getting funky. On the opening, title track, misty clouds of synthesizer swirl around a percolating hip-hop rhythm as a woman's soothing warble rises over the high-tech groove. Mesmerized, one can almost understand the lyrics. Almost but not quite, because the vocalist is an African Pygmy from Ghana and she is singing in her native tongue. Suddenly, cultural borders blur. What kind of music is this anyway? And would anyone actually dance...
Dillon Professor of Government Graham T. Allison '62, citing frustration with the bureaucratic "swirl" of the Pentagon, will leave the Clinton Administration and return to teaching at the Kennedy School of Government...
...proud of what's been accomplished, but the swirl [in the Defense Department] has led me to conclude that I can better accomplish things from an independent perch on the outside at Harvard," Allison told The Crimson yesterday...
...resignation letter Allison wrote, "I have shared with you the frustration of the swirl that has kept the Office of the Under Secretary for Policy from being effective. I have, therefore, concluded that I can have, therefore, concluded that I can best serve the agenda to which you and I are both committed by resigning...