Word: swanning
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...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...
...industry insiders said the aborted merger was a bad deal from the beginning. "It would never have worked," said Alan Edgar, an energy analyst for the securities firm of Schneider, Bernet & Hickman in Dallas. "Two ugly ducklings just won't make a swan." Concurred E.F. Hutton's William Craig: "It looked like a terrible deal for Occidental." He pointed out that Diamond Shamrock's principal oil holdings, which are in Indonesia, are being rapidly depleted...
...trotted the final 200 yds. along an elevated bridge to Canton's ultramodern White Swan Hotel, the slight, blond runner was greeted by Guangdong province sports officials and svelte Chinese maidens in green cheongsams. But for Georgia's Stan Cottrell, 41, the greatest reward last week was simply finishing the 2,125-mile Great Friendship Run he had begun 53 days earlier from the Great Wall of China, northwest of Peking. "I call this a miracle run," said Cottrell, who held U.S. and Chinese flags as he was presented with a brown cloisonne trophy...
...Peking has also consented to let a Dallas-based firm called Leisure & Recreation Concepts, Inc., build a $1 million amusement park near the coastal town of Shantou to be named Dragon Lake, complete with Ferris wheels, swan boats and an electronic arcade...
...instance, in its performance of the classic "Swan Lake," the company wore blue costumes rather than white. And the dancers introduced a new perspective on "Giselle," setting it in ante-bellum Louisiana rather than the forest of the Rhineland...