Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efforts at tax reform remind me of one of Denmark's better-known fairy tales," said the President during his dinner toast. "When I talk about (reforming the tax system), I can visualize a beautiful swan. All the special interests see is an ugly duckling...
...generally report that barrio crime rates at worst are no higher than in poor black and white areas. Illegal immigrants in particular seem to be less the perpetrators than the victims of crimes, which they often are reluctant to report for fear of being deported. Says Police Chief John Swan of Beaumont, Texas, with no conscious irony: "Our experience is that illegals are very law-abiding members of our community...
...nice day and you feel like checking out the city and frolicking a but, take the Red Line to Park St. where you'll find the Boston Common and the nearby Boston Public Garden. The Garden, with its flowerbeds, duckpond setting and swan boats is a nice place for a picnic (furnished by the gourmet grocery stores around the corner on Charles St.) And if you're up for some historical hiking, you'll be at the start of the Freedom Trail, a walking tour which snakes past the Old North Church, Paul Revere's House, and the magestic gold...
...town where U.S. and Soviet forces linked up along the Elbe River on April 25, 1945. The recent Soviet shooting of an American officer in East Germany has cast a pall on the anniversary celebration. The U.S. military now says that it would be inappropriate to attend, but Robert Swan, an organizer of the reunion, defends it as a partial remedy to "40 years of fear, 40 years of ignorance, 40 years of mistrust of each other...
...union of Leda and the swan (a.k.a. Zeus) once caused mankind some problems, including the Trojan War. If Fevvers is truly a second coming, what upheavals lie in wait for the imminent 20th century? Author Angela Carter, 44, keeps this question twirling throughout Nights at the Circus, her eighth novel. Answers dangle out of reach. But Carter's brand of fanciful and * sometimes kinky feminism, already heralded in her native England and gaining admirers in the U.S., has never been more thoroughly or entertainingly on display...