Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moscow had been swept with rumors that Chernenko might step down at the plenum because of poor health. But the sole topic at the one-day session was agriculture. Chernenko outlined an ambitious 20-year development scheme, calling for the reclamation of 44.5 million acres of desert and swamp land, mainly in the country's temperate southern regions, by the end of the century. In the meantime, Moscow will have to make up for this year's poor harvest with extensive imports. Ironically, help is coming from the Reagan Administration. Under a new five-year grain-sale pact...
Falwell's followers believe Christians will be swept or "raptured" into heaven before the great Tribulation. A common version of the end is that the Soviet Union (the evil northern empire of Ezekiel 38-39) will swoop down upon Israel but be defeated. After a later battle at Armageddon, God will inaugurate the millennium...
...follow the examples set onscreen. Thus movies containing scenes of sexual violence are criminal violations-if not of the obscenity statutes, then of women's civil rights. And this applies to slasher movies like Friday the 13th and art-house hits like Lina Wertmuller's Swept Away as well as to heterosexual hard core. (Gay porn, in which men victimize men, would not be affected.) En garde! Out of the furnace of feminism springs a righteous protectionism that strikes with vigilante force...
...received support from some unlikely organs of the body politic. In Indianapolis the city council passed a law declaring that certain depictions of carnal mayhem were indeed civil rights violations. And psychologists at the University of Wisconsin released studies indicating that male subjects exposed to Friday the 13th, Swept Away and similar films did indeed assume the hostile attitudes of rapists. But now, leaping into the fray with the reckless assurance of kamikaze pilots, come two Hollywood films that confront the sexual-violence issue: Brian De Palma's Body Double and Ken Russell's Crimes of Passion...
...Rarely has the idea of artistic heroism been so conspicuously tied to the ascent of the social mountain. But now all this will change. The general public, one may predict, will see very little. Its members will struggle for a peek through a milling scrum of backs; will be swept at full contemplation speed (about 30 seconds per image) through the galleries; will find their hope to experience Van Gogh's art in its true quality thwarted. Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels...