Word: swedes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prime minister and anti-apartheid activist Olof Palme was shot in the back by an unknown gunman. Testifying Thursday in an attempt to mitigate his sentence on murder and robberies, Eugene De Kock said former South African spy Craig Williamson had led an operation to assassinate Palme. The murdered Swede had supported the African National Congress throughout the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the foremost supporters of the anti-apartheid sanctions campaign. Swedish authorities say they had privately suspected South African involvement in Palme's death since 1987, but refused to comment further. Until his arrest, De Kock...
...must learn to deliver, say, a richer string sound or a brassier brass. That's why what is going on in San Francisco is creating such a buzz in the classical-music world. It has been just six months since Michael Tilson Thomas inherited the baton from the sober Swede Herbert Blomstedt, but already the San Francisco Symphony has undergone a transformation. Woodwinds dance merrily, the brass resonates nobly, and the strings speak as one; overall, performances crackle with newfound vigor...
...sense, grown too big for the fashion world that created them and turned them into internationally admired adventuresses. Instead of modeling clothes in New York City, Cindy Crawford was in Miami shooting her first movie, Fair Game, with Billy Baldwin. Vendela fans could have found the towering Swede in Los Angeles, where she had recently done a guest spot on Murphy Brown. Naomi Campbell, usually ubiquitous all through Fashion Week, appeared in just two shows. She had intended to saunter down the aisle for her friend, designer Todd Oldham, but the budding movie actress (she co-starred in this year...
...standard response is to "do what we can" to help an au pair return home.) Instead the Lynches helped Saskia make her travel arrangements. Then, not wanting to squander their nonrefundable program fee of roughly $2,700, they demanded a replacement. This time, they got a 19-year-old Swede who was all the agency had promised: an English- speaking au pair who provided 12 months of flexible, dependable child care in exchange for room, board, a $100 weekly salary, a $300 educational stipend and a round-trip ticket...
This mystique made Lancaster, who died last week of a heart attack at 80, the first modernist movie hunk. He sprang to prominence in the emotional chaos after World War II and was a star in his first role, as the doomed Swede in The Killers (1946). Immediately viewers could spot a gritty urban charm, brooding good looks, a handsome physique. He made the most of this charisma in The Crimson Pirate, an ebullient homage to Douglas Fairbanks that drew on Lancaster's own acrobatic skills, and later as the consummate con man in both Elmer Gantry (for which...