Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With all that flare in the air, and all the strong support on the ground, it is little wonder that the stars of the show seemed, especially during all the weeks of feverish preparation, to have been virtually swept off the stage. Charles still pressed on with his ceremonial schedule, even taking a side trip to Dartmoor Prison, whose inmates presented him with a ball-and-chain paperweight. Lady Diana showed up in the stands at Wimbledon, looking fetching and diverting spectator attention from the antics of John McEnroe on Centre Court. The two also appeared together in public...
...correct this situation, Charles and Diana raised eyebrows by registering a list of wedding gifts at the General Trading Company, a tony London emporium with a royal warrant to supply fancy goods. Gift givers who are bored by silver and feel that the Germans have pretty well swept the kitchen-equipment field can drop by the store and have a look at the list of some 300 desired items, which include omelette and sauté pans, salt and pepper mills in natural wood, dishes for casseroles and soufflés, 24 champagne glasses, 18 highball tumblers, a dark green tablecloth...
...shock. Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis called for a special session of the U.N. Security Council and summoned the American and Soviet ambassadors for separate talks. In the aftermath of the raid, a new wave of bitterness, directed not only at Israel but at the U.S. as well, swept through the Arab countries of the Middle East. In Beirut, newspapers referred to the attack as "the Apocalypse" and as "a massacre of Lebanese civilians," and described it as the bloodiest air raid against an Arab city in the 33-year history of the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...sloshed out of his mind. A terrifically convincing drunk, he confronts both high and low society while hilariously smashed. Somehow, you're supposed to think that his drinking is bad and the result of an unhappy childhood, but his drunk scenes are so good-naturedly boisterous that you are swept up into his alcoholic bliss and wouldn't mind him staying that way forever...
True, ostensibly decent people turn up now and then in literature, but they almost never get depicted as being swept away by impulses to sweetness. They are more often set up for a comedown. On one end of the literary spectrum, Hamlet might have been a pleasant fellow if Shakespeare had not handicapped him with that belief in ghosts, plus suicidal and homicidal tendencies. On the other end, given the way authors are, Jack is bound to wind up falling all over himself every time he tries to fetch a pail of water. In truth, the world's literary...