She revolves like a wedding cake.
Her bungalow is positioned in front of a scrim of mackerel sky and revolves, like a sort of clapboard Rubik's Cube, to reveal a gaudy, cluttered interior.
The party begins to revolve like a carrousel, as if she were on a carrousel, watching the fixed earth go around past her.
Sometimes the camera itself turns, making the floor and the room the dancers occupy seem to revolve like a dizzying panoptic machine.
Though the smoothly handsome Mr. Isaak is in his mid-40's, he seems sweet and boyish, even when he's consulting with a naked blond woman sprawled on a round blue couch that revolves like a record.
Soon Dr. Berliner had amassed dozens of dreidels, including a cut-paper top that sits under a glass dome but doesn't spin and another that revolves like a roulette wheel.
First, the fatal stabbing of David Kammerer in 1944, around which this novella revolves like a ghoulish carousel; then the passing in 2005 of Kammerer's attacker, Lucien Carr, which meant publication could finally go ahead.
A sweet-tempered maid, Helene (Mabel Clements), scurries about the Helmers' tidy house; she opens the front door, and our fair-haired heroine enters Ian MacNeil's ingenious set, which sometimes revolves, like a dancer in a music box, as the actors move from room to room, trailed by Stuart Earl's lovely score.
Some experts on the region, including Jamie Morison of the University of Washington, say they remain convinced that the biggest force determining the extent of Arctic sea ice is wind patterns, which cause part of the ice cap to revolve like a giant turntable, propelling a steady river of floes out past Greenland into the North Atlantic.
Even though I wished Ms. Mitchell's dancing in the lead role of "La Source" had shown more flow and sweep, the way she kept one leg exuberantly extended to the side while being turned by Mr. Renko was a delight: the illusion is that the ballerina needs to keep turning faster than her partner can turn her, demanding of him that he keep swapping hands, while she revolves like a searchlight.
