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This totemic reduction of nature--the streamlining of a bird's body, the swish of its flight--was a prediction of the technological world to come in the second half of the century. RUNNERS-UP Guitar by Pablo Picasso; The Chariot by Alberto Giacometti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...just caught and shot, with no hesitation and no doubts. Swish! And the bench went crazy. And Maples Pavilion fell silent. And Harvard slew the beast...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Notorious G.I.Z. | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...just caught and shot, with no hesitation and no doubts. Swish! And the bench went crazy. And Maples Pavilion fell silent. And Harvard slew the beast...

Author: By Notorious G.i.z., EDUARDO PEREZ-GIZ | Title: Life After Death | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Clemente's second three-pointer of the night, a neat head-fake swish from the left wing, shaved the lead to 60-59 with 10 seconds to play and set up Beam's buzzer-beater...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Buzzer Beater Lifts M. Hoopsters | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...swish, a swoosh, the snick-snack-snick of dueling blades--the nice thing about swordplay is that it doesn't make a lot of noise. When cold steel is their weapon of choice, men can actually exchange snappy dialogue while engaging in mortal combat. Better still, when heroism and villainy go at it mano a mano, a certain clearly identifiable humanity as well as a certain cinematic grace and fluidity is imparted to their conflicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Mark of Excitement | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

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