Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...child at the Gare St.-Lazare acquires a strangeness that contradicts his intention of painting a peaceful urban scene. The grown woman stares at the painter, the little girl turns her back and gazes raptly through the iron bars into an industrial future, full of clamor and swift disjunction. For each phase of modernism there is a new Manet, and one may predict that the greatest effect of the Met show will be not on the New York public but on the artists once more...
...announcement that he would resign seemed to have stunned Shamir. "I don't think he is hungry for the job," confided an aide. But the new leader of the Herut Party, the largest group in the Likud bloc, moved decisively to assure Israelis that the transition would be swift and smooth. Shamir said that one of his immediate goals would be "the consolidation and expansion of the political achievements already reached...
Anka Muhlstein, a Parisian who has written about Proust and Queen Victoria, gives a vivid account of the Rothschild empire, the brothers' enormous shrewdness and energy, their speculations and boundless reserves of money, their private "code" for sensitive business letters, and their swift couriers...
...Jonathan Swift's 30 John F Kennedy...
...ascendancy of William Patrick Clark in Washington has been swift and, to many, unsettling. The Judge, as he is called, still wears cowboy boots with his three-piece suits and acts like a country lawyer. But this son of a hardscrabble California rancher has come a long way since his 1981 Senate confirmation hearings for Deputy Secretary of State, when his embarrassing ignorance of foreign affairs (he could not define detente or Third World) made him the butt of jokes around the globe...