Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model, lean and remote, seems rapt in some asexual trance. She walks with a swift, gliding walk, and twirls once, as a girl assistant in nondescript black announces in a flat, noncommittal voice: "Colombine, quarante-et-un, fawr-ty-wan." The model hovers, slips off the jacket and hands it to the assistant, who accepts it in silence, impersonal and invisible as an attendant on some ancient hetaera. The stolid faces stare C'l listen for a certain quality of silence." says Dior). The model twirls again and is gone...
...acts without respite be altogether happily profane; the theme turns more than dubious, it turns dull. And the telling in Tunnel is no help. In dealing exclusively with errant husbands, expectant wives and unwed mothers, it is essential that there be a light touch that leaves no smudge, a swift skating tempo that outrides thin ice. The Tunnel of Love gives even its brightest remarks the neon lighting of the wisecrack instead of the sheen of wit; it makes its stork deliveries not swoops from the housetops but road-rumbling, door-banging trips by United Parcel...
...ancient Pharaohs, who knew and admired the Afghan breed, used a different descriptive phrase-a papyrus from 4000 B.C. refers to the swift dogs that roamed the Sinai desert as "monkey-faced." No one knows how or when the seed of the breed was transported to Afghanistan, but all along the wild, high borderland of northern India the great hounds became a royal canine family. They were smart enough to herd sheep, swift enough to run down deer, sturdy enough to tangle with leopards. Their broad, high-set hips lent unusual agility to their natural speed. They have been called...
...Monkey Wife, first published in 1930, Collier wrote an improper parable to indicate his preferences and, incidentally, to pull man's leg. It has since become a minor classic in his own special fiction-fantasy style, and belongs on the same shelf as Swift's Houyhnhnms, Karel Capek's newts, and with all those who like to move to the other side of the zoo bars the better to observe mankind. Its reissue now is a lively event in a dull publishing season...
...tell this somber-hued tale, Composer Poulenc abandoned surrealist shiftiness and the brassy pyrotechnics which once made him the rage of the Left Bank. The new work proved to be in the 19th century operatic tradition-full of flowing melody, dramatic action, swift scenic shifts from the quiet cloistered walls to the reverberating streets of revolutionary Paris. The opera's most touching scene occurs in Act I, when the Carmelite Mother Superior (movingly sung by Gianna Pederzini) reveals on her deathbed to the sorrowing nuns her fear that God has abandoned her. Aided by La Scala's magnificent...