Word: maelstrom
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...long line of movies that imagine the death or near-death of political royalty - from the French film, The Assassination of the Duc de Guise, which was all the rage of 1908, to The Assassination of Richard Nixon, which mixed archival footage with Sean Penn acting up a maelstrom. That movie came and went without much outrage two years ago, as did the 1954 drama Suddenly with Frank Sinatra as a psycho waiting for a shot at the President as he passes through a small town. In political thrillers the plot is almost a cliche. Stop...
...light that followed nearly half a million years after the Big Bang. Before that flash occurred, according to the widely accepted "standard model" of cosmology, our entire cosmos had swelled from a space smaller than an atom to something 100 billion miles across. It was then a seething maelstrom of matter so hot that subatomic particles trying to form into atoms would have been blasted apart instantly and so dense that light couldn't have traveled more than a short distance before being absorbed. If you could somehow live long enough to look around in such conditions, you would...
...maelstrom that ensues, Giamatti becomes a great compass for the viewer’s voyage. When he is on-screen, the picture becomes a bit more serious, a bit more honest, and a lot more believable. His half-minute elegy at the movie’s close could save any film...
...Iran's National Security Council head, Ali Larijani, said Thursday that Iran had agreed to talk in response to a plea by its most powerful ally in Baghdad, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the largest party in the Shi'ite bloc. Hakim, caught in the maelstrom of his country's rising sectarian tension, certainly has an interest in achieving a measure of accord between his longtime backers in Tehran and the U.S.; he knows better than most that the survival of the political system which has handed him so much power still depends on the U.S. military presence...
...Even his apparent closeness with the President couldn't save Brown from the media maelstrom that surrounded his leadership in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Brown resigned on Sept 12 after TIME published a story that questioned whether his resume overstated his emergency management experience. Brown, who now runs his own disaster response consultancy, even went so far as to blame the President for some of his personal woes, citing a press conference when Bush praised his performance using one of the President's signature nicknames. "We developed a very good relationship. Unfortunately he called me 'Brownie' at the wrong...