- published: 28 Apr 2014
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A dust devil is a strong, well-formed, and relatively long-lived whirlwind, ranging from small (half a metre wide and a few metres tall) to large (more than 10 metres wide and more than 1000 metres tall). The primary vertical motion is upward. Dust devils are usually harmless, but can on rare occasions grow large enough to pose a threat to both people and property.
They are comparable to tornadoes in that both are a weather phenomenon of a vertically oriented rotating column of air. Most tornadoes are associated with a larger parent circulation, the mesocyclone on the back of a supercell thunderstorm. Dust devils form as a swirling updraft under sunny conditions during fair weather, rarely coming close to the intensity of a tornado.
In the southwestern United States, a dust devil is sometimes called a "dancing devil", "dirt devil". In Death Valley, California, it may be called a "sand auger" or a "dust whirl".[dubious – discuss]
The Navajo refer to them as chiindii, ghosts or spirits of dead Navajos. If a chindi spins clockwise, it is said to be a good spirit; if it spins counterclockwise, it is said to be a bad spirit.
Actors: Richard Stanley (actor), Richard Stanley (miscellaneous crew), Richard Stanley (director), Richard Stanley (writer), Simon Boswell (composer), Harvey Weinstein (producer), Nik Powell (producer), Bob Weinstein (producer), Paul Trijbits (producer), William Hootkins (actor), Stephen Woolley (producer), Marianne Sägebrecht (actress), Robert John Burke (actor), Mark Kermode (miscellaneous crew), David Ball (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A shape shifter (Burke) comes from the desert in search of victims, a spirit the locals call "The Dust Devil". He prays on the lonely and the unloved, those who have already lost everything but life itself. Wendy (Field) has broken up with her husband and wanders aimlessly in her car. She picks up a stranger and begins having misgivings about picking him up when strange things begin to occur. Meanwhile a local police officer (Mokae) tracks the killer. Aided by a shaman's admonishments about witchcraft he sets off to try and stop the beast before it can complete its grisly task.
Keywords: adultery, affair, allegory, cult-film, desert, director-cameo, dream, dream-sequence, dust-storm, dying-during-sexSpy the little whizzkid, yeah she's streets ahead
On top of the daybreak and the last one to bed
Keeps her gizmo under her pillow
Little dust devil whipping up a storm
Paving the way for dropouts
She's equanimous to the norm
Come early evening, well she's banging off the ceiling
And I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could paint you into my picture"
I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could draw you into my picture"
Holds the toilet seat around her neck
Writes the landlord out another open cheque
Come the daybreak, well she's a self-made
And I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could paint you into my picture"
And I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could draw you into my picture
They surely would"
And I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could paint you into my picture"
And I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could draw you into my picture"
I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could paint you into my picture"
I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could draw you into my picture