They have cylindrical shafts wrapped by spiral ridges and rounded heads with open slots at the ends.
He was seduced by spiral staircases and library ladders, but proximity to well-bound books has not been enough to propel him through a personal metamorphosis.
The best are duplexes, with sitting rooms linked to sleeping rooms by spiral staircases, facing the Mississippi at the spot where Minneapolis began.
He constructed thrilling, multi-levelled worlds connected by spiral staircases and swooping ramps, supercharged urban stage sets that sampled styles from across time and place with promiscuous glee.
The book was published in New Zealand in February , 1984 by Spiral Collective, a nonprofit feminist press run by three women in Wellington.
When the book was finally taken on, it was by Spiral, a tiny feminist press in New Zealand led by three women – two of whom had links to the same Maori tribe as Hulme.
It comes complete with authoritative mezzanines reached by spiral stairs; glass cases displaying real Teddy bears alongside their own biographical notes; and darkly varnished vitrines, intended to recall natural-history galleries, filled with Teddy-bear ephemera.
On a stretch of Route 117 known for its strip malls and car dealerships, the restaurant's facade is punctuated with suave dark blue awnings; the entrance is flanked by spiral topiaries, one of which is dead.
The way for the current wave of programming on BBC4 was paved by Spiral, often described as France's answer to The Wire, which the channel first began screening in 2006.
If you'd spent the 1980s surrounded by spiral perms, shoulder pads, blue mascara and patent stilettos, you'd want to spend the rest of your life in simple trousers, too.
The tracheae are stiffened by spiral thickenings or threadlike ridges called taenidia, which branch repeatedly, becoming reduced in cross section and ending in fine thin-walled tracheoles less than one micron in diameter.
