Word: swiftness
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...excitement only rarely produce science at Jonathan Swift's in the Square More often, you'll find blues, reggae, or some old-style rock and roll. The cover charge is usually moderate, and even the area's top bands such as the Stompers--play for at least three hours most nights. Arrive early or stand all night, especially when a nationally known act is in town...
...Green Line, is the top club in town, just short of the Orpheun and the Boston garden Covers are often steep, and shows tend to end rather promptly at midnight. Drinks, needless to say, are even more expensive then elsewhere. Since you can often see the same band at Swift's a day or two before or after the Paradise date, it pays to stay home in Cambridge...
...notes sounding through the fiscal debate is a sort of muffled cry for vengeance. The amendment will be a terrible swift sword, a judgment at last. It will impose discipline upon a nation that has felt itself losing control in a thousand ways, control not only of its money but its morals and its neighborhoods and its place in the world. The balanced-budget amendment is a metaphorical gesture with meanings that transcend the fiscal...
Life was strict, punishment swift and reward restrained at home as at military school, though father and son were close. Ed occasionally used a wire coathanger "to get my attention," Ted recalls. He was assigned onerous chores to earn his pocket money, and by his late teens his father charged him rent during summer vacations. For Ted's graduation from his second military academy, the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., Ed Turner offered an enticing but booby-trapped present: a share of the cost of a Lightning-class sailboat. The rest was to come from Ted's savings...
While nations have struggled with the twin scourges of swift inflation and slow economic growth, millions of people have lost their jobs. Steep interest rates have destroyed thousands of businesses. Countless companies have been unable to modernize obsolete factories. The promise of economic expansion, always the driving force of capitalism, suddenly seems in jeopardy...