Word: whirlwinding
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...masses. Not a minute later, to the thundering of a thousand palms, they rushed back on with Dr. Dog (the opening artist, who looked like Kid Rock as a Parliament backup dancer) in tow.With the instruments finally almost outnumbered, together, the musicians launched into “Do the Whirlwind.” Rising a meter from the ground, The shoes (now warm and soft and a little more worn from the dance) wiggled free from the limits of the floor. The pants, set free from fist-clenched pocket occupants, hung looser. The shirts, soaked through, fluttered in the breeze...
...former karate instructor-cum-independent filmmaker is on a whirlwind press tour in support of her first full-length feature, “Green Street Hooligans.” The film chronicles the transformation of a mild-mannered Harvard undergrad and Crimson editor Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) into a street-fighting man through his expulsion from school and his subsequent initiation into the ultra-violent world of soccer hooliganism...
Wide-eyed, I found a spot among the line of press and spent the next hour-plus agog at the whirlwind of celebrities and their girlfriends and their agents and their publicists...
During the last week of the campaign, candidates stumped the country looking to win a few last votes. On the right, Chirac wrapped up his whirlwind campaign in Paris, where he proclaimed, "It is time to say that [those] who have been governing us do not represent either the values or the history of France and have to go!" The Socialists also trotted out some vote-getting rhetoric. "I promise you, my friends," cried Premier Laurent Fabius, "that if we stay in power, a year from now France will have inflation of 2%--among the lowest rates in the world...
...doing it his way," says Horowitz. "On the first night, Beecham came in second." The pianist finished several bars ahead of the orchestra. The audience erupted in a frenzy. In the New York Times, Music Critic Olin Downes captured the intensity of the moment. "A whirlwind of virtuoso interpretation," he wrote, adding, "Mr. Horowitz has amazing technique, amazing strength, irresistible youth and temperament." At the next performance, Beecham got a measure of revenge, cutting short the ovation with a short speech while Horowitz cooled his heels...