Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wherever she appeared in her new stretch pants. Next year the Bogners sold only 1,000 pairs of the pants, but have since stretched their output, last year sold more than 120,000 all over the world-many to clients who will never see a slope steeper than the spiral ramp of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum...
...mortar and pestle and the bandaged eyes of justice. All that is here related moves with imaginary feet along the parallels of dead orbs; all that is seen with the empty sockets bursts like flowering grass. Out of the nothingness arises the sign of infinity; beneath the ever-rising spiral slowly sinks the gaping hole. The land and the water make numbers joined, a poem written with flesh and stronger than steel or granite. Through endless night the earth whirls towards a creation unknown...
Houghton's play, despite a by-passed chance for an uproarious finale and Hillier's shoddiness, was funny and well performed. Thus, in inagurating its new home, an attractive room directly opposite Widener, the Poets' Theatre has broken a spiral of esotericism which had over-exploited the academic nature of this community. Now Poets' owes a wider showing to both its author and its potential audience. Let's assume that all theater is experimental, rather than a few designated performances...
What led to the Paris riots was a vicious spiral of provocation and retaliation. In late August, F.L.N. terrorists in France launched a wave of attacks on pro-French Moslems and French police that in seven weeks killed eleven cops and 98 Algerians. As a countermeasure the government clamped a 7 p.m. curfew on the Algerian cafes, where F.L.N. leaders hang out. Algerians also were "strongly advised" to be off the streets by 8:30-and soon found that police, with newly issued bulletproof vests and three-foot staves for patrol duty, wasted no time repeating the advice to those...
...with an impressive dramatized study of group psychotherapy in the U.S. Navy (starring Arthur Kennedy). NBC's Theater '61, offering live productions of TV plays adapted from once popular movies, may sound like hybrid corn, but the first one, Robert Goldman's TV version of The Spiral Staircase, reminded viewers how good live television drama...