Word: vortexes
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...earth is spinning-which would look clock wise to an observer hovering in space hovering in space above the Southern Hemisphere, Counterclockwise to an observer in the north. The theory was convincing enough, but so difficult was the proof that only recently has the direction of the bathtub vortex been verified in the laboratory...
...naturalistic colored light and into a mystic realm. The imagery performs flip-flops, a peasant woman turns topsy below inverted roofs. Perspective is abandoned to a personal scale that adjusts the size of images to their importance. So a huge cow and a man nuzzle, centering on a vortex of color that abolishes depth. Like the flat saints of old Russian icons, his images beckon contemplation, summoning memories from the mind. It is the scenery of a child building dreams in a darkened bedroom...
...takes only a slight draft to start a natural vortex. The vortex then increases the wind speed, which, in turn, enlarges the whirl. In the laboratory the vortex increases the velocity of the air in propotion to the screen's radius. With a screen speed of four rotations per second, Ying has produced winds up to seven miles per hour near the whirl. While the rotating screen sucks air outwards, the rising heat of the fire pulls air toward the flame; at speeds faster than four revolutions per second, the screen's pull is greater than that of the fire...
...distance, they have twisted into a vortex of somber terrors. The grandmother stands to one side, ignoring the menace of a sunflower that ignites the trees. Reflected fire gleams in the old woman's vacant eye. At the side of the painting, the girl adds a caption in verse...
...cleaning the air of Lamont is not a deed to be taken lightly, though all demand it with suffocating, gagging breaths. By raising the issue in its poll on the libraries, the HCUA has plunged the Administration into the very vortex of a maelstrom of complexities...