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Covering the breasts was a joined pair of black velvet, diamond-shaped patches, whose bottom points met the top points of a long black velvet skirt, of which the top edge plunged in one sharp V to the lace-covered navel in front, and swept diagonally back in a bigger V to the bottom of the lace-covered spine.
Holmes credits his success to the last election, in which a bevy of Democrats were swept into office.
It’s hazardous; buses do topple over, rooftop passengers on trains do occasionally get swept off the top by an overhanging steel rod, but they accept the risk for the free ride — rooftoppers aren’t in the habit of buying tickets.
Since then at least one monumental social change has swept across suburbia--namely the entry of married women into the work force--without generating a literature.
When Baltus Van Tassel (Michael Gambon), the town's richest citizen, intones the story of the Hessian who lopped the heads off revolutionaries for sheer love of butchery, the flashback is mythic in its ghastliness: Christopher Walken--his hair swept up, with boiled eggs for eyes and teeth like sharp spikes--wheels, hacks, impales, and drenches the snow with gore.