helter-skelter
hurried and confused.
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I think Fisher's Design #6 could have gained a lot more enthusiasm and support at that stage if the 1880's crinoline fashion-revival hadn't made a huge helter-skelter seem so impractical to upper-class Victorians.
FAMEHUNGRY: Battersea Arts Centre 15–16/05/2026, A helter-skelter nosedive into TikTok, The Almighty Algorithm and the attention economy to ask what it means to be an artist now. Louise Orwin has read the writing on t…
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hurried and confused.
After World War II, from 1945 until the early 1960s, the helter-skelter growth of the reprint industry went largely unheeded by the general publishing industry, then under its own mounting pressures to publish new works for a growing rea…
“I think Fisher's Design #6 could have gained a lot more enthusiasm and support at that stage if the 1880's crinoline fashion-revival hadn't made a huge helter-skelter seem so impractical to upper-class Victorians.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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In confused, disorderly haste.
The winds knocked huge trees helter-skelter all over my garden.
“FAMEHUNGRY: Battersea Arts Centre 15–16/05/2026, A helter-skelter nosedive into TikTok, The Almighty Algorithm and the attention economy to ask what it means to be an artist now. Louise Orwin has read the writing on the wall. Performance art is dead. (Maybe.) Using very real,…”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(chiefly, _, British) An amusement ride consisting of a slide that spirals down around the exterior of a tapering central tower.
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