An interesting comparison is between the tumult of "The Artist's Studio," a drawing made between 1914 and 1917, and a more delicate drawing of the studio from 1920 when canvases are neatly against walls.
The Meat Puppets' "II," full of songs about disorientation, kept listeners off balance by veering between punky tumult and intricate country picking, though the countryish songs are full of very untraditional harmonic slippage.
The tumult Sunday seemed perched between two deepening narratives: a vision of anarchy offered by the government, and echoed by Egyptians fearing chaos, against the perspective of protesters and many others that the uprising had become what they called "a popular revolution".
It was the fifth night of pro-democracy protests that have alternated between moments of tumult and relative calm.
Or for that matter, between enjoying the thunderous tumult of Kid Rock or Limp Bizkit and deciding to break stuff.
In my novel, The End of Everything, 13-year-old Lizzie's best friend Evie disappears just at that noisy hinge between childhood and adolescent tumult.
In this tumult, I was struck by the chasm between the incoherence of the rulers and the poise of the many who wanted the outside world to bear witness.
Like many of his peers, Mr. Yu grew up in the tumult of Mao's Cultural Revolution, the decade between 1966 and 1976 when concepts like universal rights and free speech were viewed as bourgeois contaminants from the West.
They say that he is seeking to buy himself a couple of months before new elections are called, and to save the country from the tumult of a campaign season while violence between the Israelis and Palestinians continues.
