1.   Instead of escaping, the Astros now find themselves trapped in the same frustrating downward spiral that ended their previous three postseasons.

2.   The actresses themselves are trapped in the same spiral, knowing that no one ever fired an actress for being too thin.

3.   The agreement averted further confrontation over rival Republican and Democratic trial plans that had threatened to send the Senate into the same partisan spiral as the House.

4.   The same spiral band of showers and thunderstorms from Hurricane Erika that affected the U.S. Virgin Islands started to move across Vieques and Culebra.