Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simply tragic. In the teen-horror flicks Scream and Scream 2, despite being pursued by psychos and serial killers, she exudes likability and warmth. And in her newest film, the sweaty, hormonal romp Wild Things, Campbell glistens with sincerity, even as her character is swept up in an unlikely swirl of perjury, murder and three-way sex. "[Neve] makes you care and empathize with her," says Bob Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax, the studio behind the Scream films. Says Peter Roth, president of the Fox Entertainment Group: "She's beautiful but accessible. You feel she could be your friend...
...know that Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the greatest sculptor of the Roman Baroque, had to have been a deeply religious man. Nothing less than divine inspiration could have enabled him to create the works stamped with his trademark devotion--the extraordinarily vivid angels, seemingly descended directly from heaven in a swirl of fluid drapery, are instilled with awe and holy adoration that transcend the earthly constraints of clay...
Before the '60s, America seemed immune to the revolutionary impulse that defined the 20th century elsewhere. Periods of tumult--the giddy swirl of the '20s; the grinding despair of the Great Depression, which led so many to question capitalism itself--only served to highlight the broad, deep social stability born of American affluence. But the 1960s brought one great revolution in American life--civil rights--and many smaller ones. Religious dogma, journalistic objectivity, middle-class morality--all came under assault as the war sputtered on. Pleasures were now political statements; student opposition to the war turned into an assault...
...lifts his feet from the ground. He takes care to hide the shaking left hand that signals the onset of Parkinson's disease, but he cannot disguise the frozen features and slurred words that at times betray the illness. Rumors of cancer and of the Pope's imminent demise swirl about...
...Flight 826 was so-called clear-air turbulence, which occurs when there is scarcely a puff of cloud in a pilot's path. CAT can be caused by a lot of things, including a change in direction of the jet stream, a clash of opposing air masses or a swirl of wind rising off a mountain. Not only is the phenomenon invisible, both to the eye and to radar, but it can also be highly localized, lurking in a patch of sky as small as 1,000 ft. across. When CAT hits, says retired United Airlines captain Andy D. Yates...