A maternal vertigo beset her, the room circled, and the thin scars on her son's arms sometimes seemed to spell out Pete's name, the loss of fathers etched primitively in an algebra of skin.
She pauses to scoop up an armful of scattered toys, then mounts another flight of stairs, crosses the living room, circles 38 steps on a cast-iron stairwell ("Look the other way," she may call to someone below as she gathers her billowing dress around her calves), hauls herself up 13 rungs in a narrow vertical shaft, and emerges — at last! — into a glass globe 462 feet above this city.
At some point, as the Happy Valley crowd sank into an addled haze, I wanted to cover my eyes — probably during the "sheet game": men would hide behind a sheet strung across the room, circles were cut into it through which a woman would grope a hand, a nose, an elbow, to identify the owner; as the alcohol content went up, the holes in the sheet were cut lower, and the men unbuttoned their trousers.
All the engineers work out of a single conference room, circling around a single table.
Staff perform a tightly choreographed routine, with data fed back to Ms Thomas and others to find further improvements.Examination rooms circle a central hub so that doctors can confer easily with assistants and specialists.
If Jones finds a way of changing this before the next World Cup, he will prove himself the greatest squarer of committee-room circles since Lyndon B Johnson.
There are an awful lot of gardens here, green "rooms" that unfold into more green rooms, circled with cedar branch fences, arbors and porticos made by Mr. Handelsman, canopied with grape vines and the branches of fruit trees.
"You can walk into any room and circle around.
It's also true that the "engine room" of Circle comes from outside the NHS.
At the center of a darkened room, a circle of video screens displays various Palestinians and Israelis recruited from the ranks of New York's seemingly endless supply of actors.
