Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paradise. The idea is to move them to a safe distance from the sealed frontier in Berlin or other areas bordering the West. Some were actually caught in the act of fleeing; others are merely suspected of planning to flee, or "spreading unrest." For all, the penalty is swift deportation to the new camps in the interior, where "work rehabilitation" means sweating in a quarry or a mine from...
...Swan Queen and a menacing Black Swan; when the cast changed for the second night's performance, Ballerina Kaleria Fedicheva proved the better actress, and possibly the better dancer. She dared the famous 32 jouettes en tournant (whipping spins) that Zubkovskaya omitted for a less spectacular series of swift traveling turns...
...company were soon to tour Latin America with The Glass Menagerie. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was just "too dirty," and A Streetcar Named Desire called for too large a cast. So the group ended up doing Suddenly, Last Summer and Sweet Bird of Youth, the one a swift history of a young girl whose mind shattered when her cousin was eaten alive by street urchins, the other a dreary shockfest about a young actor who is emasculated by angry citizens when he returns with his aging Hollywood mistress to the town where he once "ruined" an innocent young...
...20th century, has a guitar-plunking balladeer who helps chronicle Theodore Roosevelt's four years in the badlands, showing his metamorphosis from dude to rough rider, his encounters with horse thieves, cattle rustlers, and a French nobleman who tried to set up a meat-packing empire long before Swift took on Armour. Following T.R.'s memoirs about the period, the pageant's Dakota cowboys take one look at his glasses and begin calling him "Four Eyes." T.R. bats all of them and sternly vows reform when he witnesses the lynching of a horse thief...
...merely to get under way. The U.S. objective at Punta del Este was to offer Latin America, tormented by its hunger for food, learning, health and work, a working alternative to Castro's "socialism," and it hoped to encourage Latin Americans themselves to prove that democracy can provide swift enough economic and political progress...