Word: unwound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first tableau showed a little owl-and-pussycat boat foundering in a tempest of billowing waves and lyrical lightning. For the next scenes, set in the land of some randy, warlike Pasha, the Soviets seemed to have unwound their every bolt of gaudy cloth. No fewer than five composers are credited with contributing to the noisy score; the choreography, some of it by Marius Petipa, is strictly cut and paste; the plot went down with the ship. But Le Corsaire provides the occasion for some florid dancing, especially in the hands of bravura technicians like Tatyana Terekhova and Farukh Ruzimatov...
Carone skated straight to the net, unwound and sent the puck out of the danger zone...
...Osama's house several twists and turns away from the square, his mother, father and sisters crowded into the living room, and tea was served. The room was a chilly concrete square furnished with plush red sofas and a cabinet full of china figurines. Osama unwound a red-and-white-checked kaffiyeh from his head as he began talking. He was fresh out of jail, having served 14 days for throwing a tear-gas canister back at Israeli soldiers. "The army is the provocation," he said. "The fact that they come into our camp is enough so that the shabab...
...evidently not spinning so rapidly in the wrong direction that it allowed no moment for a corrective or contemplative voice. Arnold took hold of that moment; he felt that it was his to take. Yet even as he wrote Dover Beach, the railroads that had spread across England like unwound threads in the early part of the century were stretching toward the sea to accelerate the world's speed. Were the Arnolds to take a hotel room in Dover, 1985, it would be in the Holiday Inn. Nothing in Dover today invites a meditative use of time...
While the defense was something the Bruins, the Crimson offense was slowly getting unwound After a frustrating first half, in which both teams had a number of close calls but no goals. Harvard finally got on the scoreboard midway through the second stanza...