WAV mentions the very popular fusilli pasta. I've always found it to be a bit dense in a slightly repressive way, so I thought I'd mention a new discovery I've made, fusilli bucati. It's a similarly short pasta made of tight little spirals of hollow tubes (like bucatini, which, like fusilli, I don't get on with). It's lovely with any sauce that calls for short pasta, much lighter than fusilli. I've been buying up bags of it in Waitrose. It's interesting that pasta shapes in all their variety, not withstanding the fact that they're basically all made of the same thing, make all the difference if you select the "right one..."