Word: swirles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caught in the swirl of praise and blame, Rockefeller was at week's end still firmly defending his action. "I used my best
...inconsistently wobbles between crude parody-guests at the party flounce offstage in a way that was clearly meant to be amusing-and lush sentimentalism. The four lithe male dancers who play the diva's lovers are coyly dressed in skintight body stockings and continually swirl enormous Art Nouveau capes about themselves like pretend matadors at a gay beach...
...mobile homes and just plain tents. For a fee that ranges from $4 to $6, depending on the size of lot, a family can pretend it is camping out while still enjoying the delights of suburbia. Television addicts can plug in their sets, Jacuzzi fans can return to the swirl, and if Mom forgot her hot pants back in San Berdoo, she can replace them at Campland's own boutique...
Gradually the stage fills with weird, masked figures from the mists of prehistory: tribesmen in vast, shaggy costumes thumping drums, bonging gongs, pinging cymbals. Enormous idols appear. Frenzied, the primitives swirl and bang and jabber. The shaman speaks: God demands a sacrifice, the greatest sacrifice is sex, a taboo is born...
Urban violence is easily measured in terms of those killed or wounded. But what of the impact of such disruptions on the psyche? Two Belfast psychiatrists, themselves caught in the swirl of the city's Catholic-Protestant riots during 1969, wondered how the mental health of those living near and around the barricades had been affected. In two different papers published in the current British Journal of Psychiatry, they report that, with some exceptions, there was little evidence that the troubles had led to an increase in serious psychological disturbances...