Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sullivan has terrible diction, little rapport with women, and has never set foot on a stage. Despite all that, Gilbert O'Sullivan currently has the No. 1 hit single in the U.S. with Alone Again (Naturally). Last week the effusively bittersweet ballad was making the biggest sweep of Top 40 radio stations since the Beatles' salad days...
...Games. Below, sprawling over 740 undulating acres, is the Olympic Park, a verdant retreat with a boating lake, broad tree-lined walkways and facilities for more than two-thirds of the 195 events* on the Olympic agenda. Three of the largest venues are partially under one "roof," an expansive sweep of acrylic glass that drapes over the landscape like a free-form circus tent. Though striking, the roof has roused the ire of many Munich taxpayers because its cost soared from the original estimate of $3.5 million to $63 million. The overall Olympic bill of $750 million, or more than...
...barring acts of God or a radical sweep of city elections, the transformation of Harvard Square is unstoppable. Whether the class of '76 spends its first reunion in a honky-tonk tourist trap, or a thriving, accessible, commercially diverse Harvard Square, will be known--soon...
...crime rates, and general concern over drugs and immorality, 52% of the sample considered things to be going "well" in the country these days, compared with 43% who thought they were going "badly." Disaffection seems widespread, to be sure, but at the moment it appears hardly sufficient to sweep McGovern into the White House. Surprisingly, 62% of those polled said that they were not worried about rapid changes in their neighborhoods (35% were). An overwhelming 67% of the sample were "totally opposed" to school busing; yet oddly, only 6% regarded it as a major issue. That could change, of course...
Rarely, except in Robert Flaherty's documentaries, has nature been so truly or so tangibly rendered on the screen. Deliverance is splendidly photographed (by Vilmos Zsigmond) and edited (by Tom Priestley). Images sweep by the eye in great, violent cascades that transcend Dickey's prose renderings of the same terrain...