At one point I stopped for a swig of water, and when I slapped at the whining mosquitoes that danced on my neck and hands, I slipped and slid over some tumbled pieces of rock, grabbed at branches to stop my fall, and landed just in front of a bas-relief of warriors, maidens and fish alive in stone.
The test is basically tumbling 10 pieces of rocks each weighing 40 60 g for a two ten minute cycles in a water submerged mesh drum (2 mm mesh size).
-- The 1960's infamous domino theory was raised from the grave not only in the 1980's to frighten Americans into tacit support for America's wars in Central America, but then again in regards to the 1991 model of Saddam, never mind the near-constant invocations of tumbling playing pieces as al Qaeda and/or ISIS seeks world domination.
The Jackson hit "Human Nature" opens the record, a Sun Ra homage called "One for Blount" ends it, and "Autoscopy," a tumbling free piece, comes right in the middle.
Say they buy a Lego car kit — in the old days you'd open the box and out tumbled sixty pieces you had to assemble to make the car.
A table favorite was the Southern-style hot-and-sour soup, with tamarind, tomato, okra rounds and bite-size wedges of pineapple juxtaposed against a slab of meaty salmon that tumbled into pieces at the touch of a china spoon.
Working with a large recycling company, Cao carefully sorted the glass into colors, broke it and tumbled the pieces so they ended up as reasonably smooth little pebbles that could actually be walked on barefoot.
Wise wrote that it was: an oddly assorted battery of some thirty pieces of artillery, of all sorts of carriages and calibre long, short, and mediums; they command the usual anchorage, and no doubt do very well to prevent any acts of violence from merchant ships; but it is a question, if, at the second discharge of shot, they do not tumble to pieces.
Lewis' car hit the pole so hard it sliced the vehicle in half, sending pieces tumbling up the road.
His first such piece, the Tumbling Man, was an exercise in parsing and replicating human motion, which gave birth to a decades-long series of sculptures.
