The political class was intrigued by September 14th's three-party agreement to sort out the obscure convolutions of the Fobaproa bank bail-out.

ECONOMIST: Mexico

Her skin, every follicle and flaw in focus in the ground glass of his lens, had the same sun- and sea-wind weathering, but fainter, of the stones of the Californian desert, and her hips had the convolutions of the naked mountains.

ECONOMIST: Charis Wilson

"The Return of the King" turns out to be even more ambitious than its remarkable predecessor, "The Two Towers, " though it's obviously not as compact (another relative thing), what with dramatic convolutions within its several plot lines and a stupendous martial passage that manages to dwarf the battle of Helm's Deep.

WSJ: Now That's an Epic