Catherine wheel
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Set to Carl Orff’s dramatic score, the production includes a giant moving Catherine wheel and a live chorus seated on a floating platform above the stage.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2022
And the late conservative justice Antonin Scalia will spin like a Catherine wheel in the grave.
From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2016
LiVolsi pointed to what looked like a whipping Catherine wheel, with spikes that spurted powder into paper packets, 50 blurring past in every second.
From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2014
The first Catherine wheel will be lit in roughly 100 days' time, 200 tops.
From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2012
The whirl of the St. Catherine wheel in the midst of this darkness amounts to a miracle, and the exquisite drawing of the shower of falling fire would arouse envy in Rembrandt, and prompt imitation.
From Modern Painting by Moore, George (George Augustus)
