Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long as Alexander has an arsenal of information at her fingertips, her prose style is swift and pleasing. She handles a story well, and her melodramatic style suits this story in particular. Once Jean Harris begins to find her clothes slashed to pieces and splashed with Mercurochrome and begins to collect her rival's homemade "Super-Doc" badges and shred them into he backyard pool. Alexander is in her element...
Connoisseurs of seafood may take issue with Jonathan Swift; it takes no boldness at all to eat oysters fresh from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. But going after these oysters requires a bold spirit and a sturdy body. Most of the Chesapeake's watermen, heirs to three centuries of tradition, harvest the bay's oysters by time-honored methods. Some scrape them off the bottom with dredges towed behind graceful, sail-driven skipjacks. Some haul them up with mechanical dredges. Many pluck them off the bottom with unwieldy 18-ft.-long tongs...
...seriousness with which the Italians approached the game of soccer is difficult for the North American mentality to grasp. This observer had a swift introduction. On a sunny Monday afternoon early in July Italy's beloved Azzuri (a name derived from the team's uniforms) squared off against the World Cup tournament favorite--Brazil--in the quarterfinals. Propelled by striker Paolo Rossi's three goals, the underdog Italians through sheer tenacity somehow upset Brazil...
...action unfolds on mountain crests and sun-bleached deserts, within limpid fjords and amid howling sea storms. These requirements have proved daunting to most productions, except that in recent decades stage technology has become much more sophisticated. So has the audience, schooled by the movies' crosscutting and swift evolution of scenes...
Most of the establishments have chosen to deal with the problem by cutting back on both the number of brands and the amount of orders of domestic beers. Jonathan Swift's, which carried 45 different brands of beer and ale before the bill, has pared down to 22, and will probably eventually go to only 15, according to manager Thomas H. Wolfe...