Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wide path that leads smack into a steel-fenced pen. Just as they reach the gully, Robison digs two silver spurs into his sorrel and charges in behind them. Now the old mare at the head of the pack realizes her mistake. She frantically tries to turn but is swept along by the others...
...Coolidge Corner, Lina Wert-mueller's Swept Away makes you wonder if part of the avant-garde hasn't decided it is too cool for feminism. A northern Italian bitch-goddess (Mariangela Melato) teases and insults a poor, swarthy crew member (Giancarlo Giannini) on her husband's yacht, and when the two of them find themselves marooned on an uninhabited island everything turns upside down. Giannini turns his former oppressor into his concubine/serf and, as in Seven Beauties, shows he can do more with his eyes than anyone this side of Marty Feldman. There is a kind of love...
...much better. For most of the game, the Terriers' coterie of running backs and quarterbacks--B.U. played three quarterbacks to the Crimson's five--battled for the lowest yard per carry average. Not counting Toussaint James, who swept around end for 54 yards in the last minute of play, the Terriers rushed 45 times for a paltry 64 yards...
...northern Scotland. The tests were conducted with Bacillus anthracis, better known as anthrax, which has lethal and well-documented effects on both animals and humans. Anthrax is believed to have caused the fifth plague in Egypt mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and an outbreak of the disease swept through southern Europe in the 17th century, killing thousands. The object of the tests on Gruinard Island was to determine whether anthrax bacilli would survive if dropped and dispersed by bombs...
Some of the tales are humorous, others inspirational. "Most of these people are 50 or 60 and have swept through quite a number of things," Linowes says, adding, "You get to hear the intellectual odysseys of people who really like what they're doing...