Word: swirl
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...wearing a bright red vest that proclaims: I'm from the Czech Republic and against nice - ask me why. Nice is shorthand for the European Union enlargement treaty the Irish government dearly wants voters to ratify this Saturday. (They already rejected it once, last year, thanks to a swirl of conflicting emotions: fear that it would undercut Irish neutrality and sovereignty; an urge to give a bloody nose to the government of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.) If the Irish vote yes this time, 10 new countries, including the Czech Republic, will join the E.U. in little more than a year...
Small touches of individuality make the South End a feast for the perpetually curious. The front steps of many charming brick townhouses have scalloped sides interspersed with pyramidal points—the effect is of waves breaking as they swirl along. Walking past a row of deteriorating former industrial buildings, one comes upon a director’s canvas chair perched on the edge of a window embrasure. It faces the mural-in-motion that is the street outside...
...decision paid off for the Tigers. After jumping out to a 42.5-point lead in the first two days of the EISL Championship, the Crimson saw its advantage fade away in a swirl of Princeton records, relays and dives. The Tigers rallied back on the last day of competition to foil Harvard’s plans for a seventh-straight title...
...Maybe not for Zhu, but sex is, in fact, on every agenda, as Freud so famously declared. After much pressure, Wu allows a glimpse of his factory's musty purification room, where six Chinese women of varying ages slap translucent disinfectant on a pile of swirl-shaped green dildos, rapidly passing them down the line like volunteer fire fighters. Wu fades to the back and begins inspecting a box of pink toys, examining the motors and picking minute imperfections off the skin. With sex toys, quality is job one. "The market will be mature," says Wu, "when Chinese people think...
...fast: Tigre and Sammy, the tiny couple of questionable morals; Joe Hook, sporting a fu-Manchu and looking to boost his petty criminal rep; the Overboys, a criminal gang; the Mystery Girls, a crime-fighting duo; and Echo, the little girl with the mysterious eye-patch. They all swirl around this mystery man who turns out to be Michael Chang. Born in a secret compound, able to control men's minds, he can shed his skin like a suit. Is he a monster or savior...