Word: whirlpooling
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Braque's mind runs in no such methodical groove. His notebooks are a whirlpool of ideas and feelings, some clashing, all spilling out in his work. "Technique?" he scoffs. "Of no importance. Color? Put it anywhere. It's the art of establishing relations that matters." He has few rules, but he places feelings ahead of ideas. "If I were able to do a painting mentally," said Georges Braque last week, "I would never bother to paint...
Democratic Italy last week escaped the rock of Scylla only to veer toward the whirlpool of Charybdis. When the returns were in from the 8,000,000 voters in southern Italy's municipal elections, the Communists had been held in check and Rome had been saved by Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Demo-Christian bloc. But a discredited old dogma made a startling comeback and created a new danger...
...long winter before me," he wrote bleakly in September 1783, "and am to get through it as I can. I know the ground before I tread upon it; it is hollow, it is agitated, it suffers shocks in every direction; it is like the soil of Calabria, all whirlpool and undulation; but I must reel through it-at least if I be not swallowed...
...between Denmark and Norway. Off the northern tip of Denmark, a fierce storm blew up; Long Henry began to wallow like a waterlogged dinosaur. For an instant his long steel neck shot high above the waves, as if to get a last look at the shore; then, in a whirlpool of foam, he capsized and plunged to the bottom, taking with him one French sailor...
Last week, after seven days of searching, Kaplan's body was found spinning in a whirlpool at the base of a 40-ft. bluff near the site of the prank. Frightened and confused in the dark, he had evidently run the wrong way, plunged over the bluff into the flood-swollen Red River and drowned...