Before the 31-8 loss to South Africa in Pretoria last week, Quade Cooper's comments about a "toxic" Wallabies environment only added to the turmoil around the team.
The timing was apparently unrelated to the turmoil around the News Corporation in Britain, where Parliament is investigating a tabloid newspaper's practice of hacking into cell phones to obtain information.
The dramatic drop was ignited by a warning from the European Central Bank on Thursday that high energy costs and more sluggish global growth were finally taking a toll on the 15-nation euro zone, an economy that had seemed remarkably resistant to the turmoil around it for most of this year.
The most prominent symbol is a flower, representing the artist's distracted quest for beauty while he remains indifferent to the turmoil around him.
Madonna had promised that there would be no wardrobe malfunction during the event, alluding to the turmoil around singer Janet Jackson's performance and subsequent wardrobe malfunction during Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show.
Oblivious to the turmoil around her, the girl of about 6 or 7, whom he called "little sister," would run up to his post and say breathlessly the only English words she seemed to know: "Mister, food".
And though he variously frets about the state of his love life and enjoys career successes, his own emotions generally take a backseat to the turmoil around him, even as we see him wracked with guilt over the disappearance and alleged suicide of a colleague turned lover or struggling with the loss of a high school girlfriend.
"Radio is what I love most of all," Welles says, but he also brings vividly to life the turmoil around his 1936 production of "Macbeth" in Harlem.
Languishing on a beach in Lima, Peru, in early 1980, catching waves and chasing women on a long-expired visa, he's oblivious to the growing political turmoil around him.
Goldman pursued an independent education on her own, however, and soon began to study the political turmoil around her, particularly the Nihilists responsible for assassinating Alexander II of Russia.
