Word: vortexed
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...with a sophisticated neighbor, Rakitin (Paul Hecht), whose one-man-talk show masks the desire he feels for her. A coltishly appealing young man named Aleksei (Mark Lamos) is brought in to tutor Natalya's son. One look at him and Natalya half falls, half dives into the vortex of love...
...galaxy that appears to be spewing out a great jet of matter. Astronomers found that M87's center is ten times as bright as the rest of the galaxy, and is surrounded by stars orbiting at unexpectedly high velocities. To provide the gravitational power plant for this galactic vortex, Cambridge's Martin Rees posits a black hole 5 billion times as massive as the sun in M87's core...
...Americans, he says, "As an American you will be drawn into the situation, sucked into the vortex, whether you want it or not. You will be faced with it sooner or later. The more you as Americans--both personally and collectively-- withdraw into silence, the more the problem will catch you. I advise you to try to defend both the Jews in the Soviet Union and the Palestinians in occupied territories...
...along its top, keeping the walls continuously dark and wet, adding to a public sensation of cool quiet and private peace. The "fizz" pool shoots up some 25 spray jets, producing a continual mist -"like ground fog settling among trees or over a swamp." The "rush" is a deep vortex of cascading water, studded with descending steps on which children and adults can climb, play or simply perch in the rejuvenating flow...
...most dangerous intersection in Cambridge is not the Harvard Sq. vortex, but the corners of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Sts., where I have suffered through my most humiliating moments. It is there that a decaying drunk collapsed on me as he wheeled out of the Rix drugstore, sending us both crashing to the pavement. As I stood him up, he swooped down again, once again taking me with him. I finally propped him up against the wall--he may be there, still...