Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manages to dodge predictability without ever sounding aimless or unfocused. Buoyed by a lush weave of chiming guitars, muted strings and oboe, Stipe's moody vocals float over the music like leaves drifting across a dark pond. The songs, which tend to start slowly and build momentum, shimmer and swirl with bittersweet melodies and riffs that gather rather than hook. Nightswimming, which circles around a cascading piano part, and Find the River, which resonates with a yearning for primordial purity, have the wistful gravity of old snapshots, fleeting moments frozen in the amber glaze of memory...
Amid the furious swirl of rumors, State Department staffers suspected that someone may have tampered with Clinton's passport records. They informed the FBI, which launched a hurried investigation of the file. Meanwhile, a Bush Administration official leaked word of the investigation to the press. The FBI investigators, however, ended the probe without finding anything amiss...
Part of the great black swirl of gossip now encircling Woody Allen is the confident assertion that in his new movie, Husbands and Wives, Allen plays a college professor who makes love with a young woman student a third his age. And, oh, in Manhattan didn't he and Mariel Hemingway play a similarly mismatched couple? In Hannah and Her Sisters didn't he imagine an affair between a sister and one of her brothers-in-law? No one recalls that Manhattan's middle-aged male ended up miserably alone, and that the scandalous tryst in Hannah was not joyous...
From his new vantage point in Berlin, correspondent Daniel Benjamin lives at the nexus of the most dramatic changes in postwar Europe. "The tensions between East and West swirl around you here with a power that one has difficulty imagining anywhere else," he says. James Wilde, who opened our Istanbul bureau in January, is positioned to monitor Turkey's increasingly vital strategic role in Europe and the Persian Gulf, as well as its relationships with the emerging Islamic republics...
...mastectomy, hefts her husband's skull like a bowling ball and muses, "The final scar makes all of us safe from the world." She credits this insight to the sinister Linga, a giant Rastafarian woman with a face "beautifully scarred" by razor markings and dyed in a vivid multicolored swirl, who is passing out ganja cigarettes from a Sucrets...