Word: swirling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LYNE POPULATES THE exterior world of his movie with gaily chatting and arguing New York ethnics who swirl around his android WASP heroes like flies around a honeycomb. Lyne, in his indominatable style, means to make fun of the Chinese, Blacks, and Italians who blithely live on the surface world of lowtech New York. But the seemingly irrelevant visions of a polyglot urban landscape only serve to underscore the irrelevance and emptiness of Rourke and Basinger's protagonists...
...assure a maximum turnout, the authorities banned liquor sales a day before the voting, rescheduled soccer matches and postponed a popular television soap opera until five minutes after the polls had closed. In rural areas, entire villages, in a swirl of colorful peasant costumes, dutifully trooped to local election halls behind brass bands. In the northwestern hamlet of Szczecinek, voting was temporarily disrupted when a woman gave birth to a healthy son beside the ballot box. In Walesa's hometown of Gdansk, 3,000 people marched through the streets carrying a banner that proclaimed...
...astronomer, Gold approached the puzzle with a fresh perspective. He knew that carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the solar system, appearing in planets, asteroids, meteors and comets, often in the form of hydrocarbons. Gold believes that when the primordial gaseous swirl condensed into the sun and its satellites, large amounts of hydrocarbons settled in the earth's interior. Some of those compounds seeped upward into porous rocks and sediments, says Gold, and became such accessible pockets of riches as the oil fields of the Arabian Peninsula. He predicts that if greater depths were mined, fuel reserves...
...process continues, the earth's rotation causes the column of rising air to spiral. Fueled by a constant supply of hot tropical air, the storm feeds on itself, generating roaring winds that swirl around its "eye." When the system reaches cooler and dryer air on land, it begins to lose force. By then, however, the storm may have released energy equivalent to that of about 9 million Hiroshima-type atom bombs...
...arguments against the CRR swirl around and sometimes contradict each other. But in the absence of even a half-hearted philosophical (as opposed to procedural) defense of the continued existence of the CRR in the '80s, these criticisms strike to the heart of the University's insecurity about its own actions...