Word: swingingly
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...Hirschfeld's lines had snap and swing - movement, like a jump-rope at top speed. Millions of lines over 80 years, and not one had an inappropriate stroke. There was drama in the contrast of those black lines on a white page - a bit less when it was reprinted on the Times' gray newsprint. Which is why you should look at his work in book form: the handsomely illustrated autobiography "Hirschfeld On Line," or, for about the price of a manicure, the Gotham-glorifying "Hirschfeld's New York" and the all-movie "Hirschfeld's Hollywood...
...making it disappear. Most significantly, consumer spending is 66 percent of GDP, and the purchase of a new home tends to have an "umbrella effect" on the homeowner's spending as he heads back out to stock it with a washer/dryer, a new big-screen TV, and maybe a swing set for the yard...
...political edge, independence and democratic legitimacy. In turn, Germany acquiesced to France's campaign for a new post of E.U. President, who would chair the European Council meetings for two and a half years (with a possible second term), in place of the carrousel of national leaders who now swing into and out of the post every six months. A new post of European Foreign Minister would also be created, with a foot in both Commission and Council, and his or her own "European diplomatic service." That figure would combine the overlapping tasks of External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten...
...with bipartisan support, no less); why not start enjoying them now? The increases in child-care credits and marriage-penalty relief (not to mention, and Bush will, the immediate dropping of the 15 percent tax bracket to 10 percent) offer something for every hard-working middle-class family of swing voters. And the elimination of the "double" tax on dividends, while hardly the panacea the White House likes to crack it up to be, is economically benign and aesthetically satisfying, at the very least...
...billion is maybe a little pricey for the Senate (that dividend cut is already looking like a sacrificial lamb), and the plan lands on the President's desk somewhat smaller than when it left it, at least Bush will be remembered by the faithful (and maybe a middle-class swing voter or two) for having the big idea in the first place...