Word: swash
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When I asked him why, he replied, 'Because I intend to swash until I buckle.' Now, anyone who can say something like that in all seriousness can play Frederic, I told Joe. 'But can he sing?' Joe retorted...
...helm of Courageous he still cuts a dashing Errol Flynn figure, but some of the old swash has gone out of his buckle during the first two months of the America's Cup trials. Ted Turner has cause to be subdued. With the third and final round of the trials set to begin next week, Courageous has won only six races and lost 19, leaving her a distant second to Freedom (31-2) and only marginally better than Clipper (7-24). In Newport, R.I., site of the 129-year-old competition, a cruel whisper is making the rounds...
...photographs by Harry Callahan is called simply Eleanor, Chicago, 1949. It is the broad, pale face of a big-jawed woman-in fact, Callahan's wife, Eleanor Knapp-rising from Lake Michigan. Her eyes are closed. Her dark hair, parted in the middle, falls in thick ropes that swash in the water. Because the body is hidden by the murky wavelets, the head has a dreaming, apparitional quality, a look reinforced by the waving tendrils of hair. Yet nothing about the photograph invites one to read it as a narrative of emotion. The camera's rendering is exceedingly...
Zorro practiced it to rescue damsels in distress. The Three Musketeers used it to harass the English and French nobility. Douglas Fairbanks made a career out of it. And Thursday night at the IAB 22 swash-buckling swordsmen defended the honor of their respective Houses with the sword in the foil division of the intramural fencing competition...
...notion of France undone by its own benevolence is a grand comic conceit. But Raspail is not joking. A swash buckling world traveler and a columnist for France's moderately conservative Le Figaro, he prefaces his book by insisting that it is "no wild-eyed dream," then drives his argument home with a trip hammer. With nary a dissenting voice, the seagoing Indians are variously described as "Ganges scum," "starving bastards," a "stinking mob" and a "filthy mess." The only praise in the novel goes to some doomed white hunters who hap pily kill unarmed Indians. Whatever Raspail...