When those dictatorial studio moguls-to-be first flickered moving images on the bedsheets of their storefront nickelodeons more than a century ago, they brought in the swift-minded carny barkers and ballyhoo guys to help carry their product onto bigger screens.
She prefaced what she had to say with a warning that the S4C model, with two layers, the authority and an executive board, "was not designed for an economic downturn"; that is, swift single-minded action.
It is swift, economical, single-minded.
In his various incarnations, Tom Swift, usually in his teens, is inventive and science-minded, "Swift by name and swift by nature".
Its rise has been as swift as has the tendency of high-minded critics to pan its output.
The conspiracy-minded point to Patriot's swift introduction as evidence that 9/11 was an inside job, and that Patriot was just part of the plan.
It's especially been a bugbear of the left-leaning, conspiracy-minded side of our business and the swift Holmes-Cruise settlement will surely stoke the belief of conspiracists that more intrigue is afoot.
But that was before the scandal known, to literary-minded Bostonians, as "Jane Air".It turns out that Ms Swift, in her quest to have it all, needed extra help.
In theory, this should be the perfect answer for polarised, indecisive Israel; in practice, the record of Israel's previous national-unity governments has been poor, with little achieved on the Arab front.But if Mr Barak were able to pull together a reasonably like-minded coalition, the advance towards a Palestinian settlement could be swift.
If you drained Dolly Parton of her swift wit and Loretta Lynn of her winning pluck, you'd get Tammy Wynette, a fairly plain, small-minded gal whose searing ambition and begrudging temperament kept her from any lasting contentment.
