As austerity sweeps Europe, artistic and cultural institutions have been among the first to face cuts, with theatres, opera houses, orchestras, galleries and educational programmes all facing existential threats as their budgets and public subsidies are slashed.
"It is looking exceptional this year," says William Pitts, as the torrent of golden wheat ears sweeps into the flashing blades below the cab of his combine harvester.
Her proposal for the Al-Wakrah World Cup stadium erupts from the Qatari desert in a great vulvic bulge, its roof framed by dynamic labial sweeps, in a magnificent demonstration that the vagina can be an equally noble form for a building – and ushering in 2014 as the year of the yonic.
In Au Bonheur des Dames, a wave of shoppers sweeps through a department store, shoving and consuming as they go.
Not before time, the act sweeps away the last remaining statute from the Beveridge blueprint for the welfare state, the long outdated National Assistance Act, and brings a welcome clarity to legislation for professionals who have until now had to wrestle with perhaps half a dozen – sometimes even more – separate laws, directions and sets of statutory guidance when dealing with individual cases.
The shop steward, beautifully played by Bob Hoskins, has to wait until they cover themselves before he is prepared to talk to them, while the boy who sweeps the floor is teased about having an erection.
All that should change in July when New Horizons sweeps past Pluto and its moons, getting to within 6,200 miles of Pluto itself, and within 17,000 miles of Charon.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 10.51pm BST22 51 90+3 min: Schurrle sweeps in a cross from the right, attempting to pick out Philipp Lahm at the near post.
In the course of conducting that surveillance, though, the government inevitably sweeps up the communications of many Americans.
It has also been blamed for plunging temperatures as a cold front sweeps down from the north on the jet stream.
In front of me, a vast empty floor sweeps into the distance, punctuated by shafts cut through it that disappear into darkness.
