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Year: 2002
Classification: Drama
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MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (October 15, 2003) Couples Swept Away , one of three upscale, all-inclusive Couples Resorts in Jamaica, is adding 72 luxurious new rooms and two new dining outlets. The relaxed, tropical atmosphere, upscale features and unparalleled service at Couples Swept Away has created the demand to accommodate more guests at this outstanding resort. The rooms, which will be ready for guests in March 2004, will feature well-appointed accommodations, fine furnishings and a private verandah. (www.wheretogonext.com....dds_72.php)

We just returned from our second trip to Couples Swept Away . We were as impressed this time as we were last February. The staff was very friendly and helpful. The food was excellent, especially the fish. The drinks were free and poured generously.While there are many activities, we chose to sit on the beautiful beach, read and relax every. mor (www.tripadvisor.com....maica.html)

(North Washington Fire Rescue Divers watch the rushing water as they keep a look out for a missing boy who was swept away after his mother fell near a tributary of the South Platte River and couldn't hold on to the stroller he was in Monday, May 14, 2007, in Denver . Photo by John Leyba, Denver Post, via AP) (blogs.usatoday.com...._away.html)

Couples Swept Away does not have a great pool. They have a small pool near the main resturant and a 25 meter lap pool in the sports complex (across the street). Swept Away does not have a swim-up pool bar. Couples Negril doe (mytravelboard.com..../1260.html)

Sony Pictures has so little confidence in the latest Madonna movie, Swept Away , that it will open it in only 196 theaters on Friday. "That's the equivalent of dumping it," FoxNews.com's entertainment columnist Roger Friedman observed Wednesday. A source at Sony told Friedman: "This isn't a platform release either. There are no plans to go wider." A publicist for actor Vincent D'Onofrio , who starred in The Cell and The Dangerous Life of Altar Boys - and is a cast member of Law and Order : Criminal Intent - said Wednesday that his client is not the Vincent D'Onofrio who is suing Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie , claiming that it was his idea to produce Swept Away with Madonna in the lead role, as we reported Wednesday. Neither the Screen Actors Guild nor the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has any record of another actor named Vincent D'Onofrio (us.imdb.com....00352/news)

WilliamSteig, Abel's Island ,1976. "Steig tells the story of a mouse, Abelard Hassam diChirico Flint, who gets swept away in a driving rainstorm whilerescuing his wife's scarf and winds up stranded on a river island for ayear." (from the back cover (loganberrybooks....stump.html)

Most households have lost up to 50 or 60 per cent of their income because they cannot farm, says UNICEF Burundi Communication Officer Olalekan Ajia. Their farms have been swept away , their homes destroyed and they are either displaced internally or they have started fleeing towards the border with Tanzania (www.unicef.org....38303.html)

The Almanac Advises for February 14: " While the notion of a Valentine 's Day wedding is a romantic one, be mindful not to be swept away by the hearts and flowers of the occasion. The most important part of the nuptials is the marriage that ensues; make certain you're not tying the knot with the wrong person or for the wrong reasons. (www.spinner.com....k-almanac/)

"Even if no one else comes back, that backyard is my little oasis," says Mrs. McManus. The often-bantering retirees are some of the first residents to rebuild here at the eye of the Category 3 storm that swept away miles of waterfront homes and businesses. (www.csmonitor.com....-ussc.html)

The tsunami may have swept away their past, but it should not be allowed to destroy their future. What we all do now will have a profound influence on the lives of these children. (www.unicef.org....27703.html)

The flood swept away homes and belongings as well as water and sanitation facilities in southwest Pakistan. In response, UNICEF and its partners are providing safe water to 125,000 people in both Balochistan and Sindh Provinces. (www.unicef.org....40471.html)

NEW YORK , 25 September 2007 Four weeks of heavy flooding have taken a damaging toll on countries in West and Central Africa, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced, several hundred killed, and homes and farmland swept away (www.unicef.org....24930.html)

Daimler Will cars like this Mercedes Benz CLK 63 AMG Black Series with a V8 engine that produces 507 horsepower get swept away in a war against speed and power? (finance.yahoo.com....orsepower?)

For 50 years Battersea stayed relatively unchanged, until the bombing of the Second World War destroyed or damaged much of the property in the area. After the War a large area of north Battersea was swept away in a vast re-building plan of the borough and the county councils, changing the old face of Battersea (www.wandsworth.gov.uk....istory.htm)

The kitchen is 30 ft square by 19 ft high, and is thoroughly lighted and cross ventilated by large clearstory windows on each side, going right up to theceiling, so that all steam or vitiated air can be swept away . The kitchen and the scullery adjoining are fitted up with a most powerful steam cooking (www.institutions.org.uk....nburgh.htm)

Gustave Caillebotte provided glimpses of Parisian life with his Impressionist paintings. Get swept away to the streets of Paris through these breathtaking image (entertainment.howstuffworks.com....ionism.htm)

Earlier in her three-day visit to Sri Lanka, Ms. Veneman toured tsunami-hit areas on the east coast, including the site of a school that was swept away by the waves. She also visited a camp for survivors who were forced to flee their homes, and listened to firsthand accounts of the destruction. (www.unicef.org....27479.html)

While the Sung ruled central China, barbarians52;the Khitai, the Jurchen , and the Tangut52;created northern empires that were swept away by the Mongol (topics.nytimes.com....ies/china/)

Until elections are verified and challenges swept away , I'm still hard-pressed, post Election 2000, to even link any results. I'm still focused on process - so here's a huge curtsey in the direction of Mediagirl, who above has offered up my favorite quote of Election 2006 thus far (surfette.typepad.com/)

Every building before the mighty torrent was swept away . Huge rocks, of the weight of many tons, were loosened from their moorings and carried long distances from their natural beds. The fleetest runner of the party volunteered to warn the inhabitants in the path of danger, and his admonition prevented the loss of any lives, although there were hair-breadth escapes. (www.accessgenealogy.com....mes/clark/)

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia , 25 May 2006 Children in Aceh are eagerly awaiting the opening of the first of many schools UNICEF is helping to build in place of those swept away by the Indian Ocean tsunami (www.unicef.org....34103.html)

, received from Williamon 31 March 1830. This letter stated that he was born after the death ofhis father, William, in the Hawkesbury flood of March 1806 (contradictingthe baptismal record!). The Sydney Gazette of 6 April 1806 reported onthe drowning of William while trying to recover property swept away bythe floo (freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com....egends.htm)

Edited by Thomas H. Russell copyright 1913 Loss of life as the result of floods in New York state was reported from Glens Falls March 27. A bridge there was swept away and two persons are said to have been drowned. In the eastern end of the state the Mohawk and Hudson Yalleys experienced the worst flood in years (www.usgennet.org....yflood.htm)

Screen International's Jonathan Romney argued "Filth Wisdom" was not as bad as some of Madonna 's appearances in front of the camera, such as "Shanghai Surprise " and "Swept Away ," but it was "likely to be forgotten as quickly as most of them. (www.washingtonpost.com....00868.html)

The excitement of almost being at the end made us take the steps too fast. Almost immediately we were hit by a gust of wind that knocked us both off balance. Both of us grabbed the chain for dear life. Any stronger and we could have easily been swept away ! (www.ssqq.com....lin27d.htm)

Their subjects about twelve years since were swept away by agreat and grievous plague that was amongst them, so that thereare very few left to inhabit the country (www.rootsweb.com....edesc.html)

"This is definitely not what I had in mind," he said. "I waslooking to promote a more European, civilised style of drinking,but we seem to have been swept away by a wave of binge drinking.'These places that disgorge thousands of people onto the streetsare inherently dangerous. (www.theage.com.au....87062.html)

Like the rest of New England, I watched the Pats' amazing game on Saturday. And while I was swept away by the euphoria that comes from a good pummeling, I couldn't help but notice this post-game conference faux pas (www.boston.com....tylephile/)

He and his family saw the waves coming towards their village in Batticaloa Province on Sri Lankas east coast. They started running. The children managed to climb trees, but his wife was swept away . Her body was never recovered. (www.unicef.org....37352.html)

And then when they least expected it, the foolish ones were swept away and wondered what the hell happened. They had been completely bamboozled , left to stare heavenward and admit that God Gets what God Want (opinion.latimes.com....r-the.html)

7. In 1910, more than 118 people were killed when an avalanche of falling ice and snow swept away the train in which those people were passengers. This was the worst avalanche in U.S. history. In what state did it happen (www.education-world.com....006b.shtml)

That morning I was selling snacks with my mother, and while we were cooking the first big wave struck the shore, says 12-year old Phyo Ei Khine. We ran to a monastery, and then the second wave hit. Our house was destroyed and almost everything we had was swept away (www.unicef.org....27395.html)

"She danced, intoxicated, swept away , heady with pleasure, thinking of nothing, in the triumph of her beauty, in the glory of her conquest, in something like a cloud of happiness made of all that homage, all that admiration, all that awakened yearning, all that complete victory that is so dear to a woman's heart." (www.npr.org....d=15190446)

The 'Sett' was a much more substantial river in those days running through what became the centre of the village and had such power that it swept away at least two earlier bridges built on the site of the existing which dates from 1837 (www.hayfield.uk....story.html)

Article talks about fast venturing that has proven to be a powerful force in getting dot-coms up and running quickly. However, if this entrepreneurial model is not used properly, the best ideas can be swept away . Fast venturing is a strategy to bring a new eCommerce company to market with (search.bnet.com....ology.html)

Article talks about fast venturing that has proven to be a powerful force in getting dot-coms up and running quickly. However, if this entrepreneurial model is not used properly, the best ideas can be swept away . Fast venturing is a strategy to bring a new eCommerce company to market with. (search.bnet.com....ology.html)

October 1775, following 36 hours of continuous rainfall, a tremendous flood occurred and this completely destroyed and swept away the bridge. It is stated that a hare escaped from the flood by floating down the river supported by the body of a drowned shee (www.grimshaworigin.org....wdDory.htm)

last.fm/tablestyles/pixel.gif alt="Spielen //> Diesen Titel zu deiner Playlist hinzufügen My Dying Bride â The Dark Caress 0:30 Diesen Titel zu deiner Playlist hinzufügen My Dying Bride â Grace Unhearing 0:30 Diesen Titel zu deiner Playlist hinzufügen My Dying Bride â A Kiss to Remember 0:30 Diesen Titel zu deiner Playlist hinzufügen My Dying Bride â All Swept Away 0:30 Diesen Titel zu deiner Playlist hinzufügen My Dying Bride â For You 0:30 Diesen Titel zu deiner Playlist hinzufügen My Dying Bride â It Will Come 0:30 Diesen Titel zu deiner Playlist hinzufügen My Dying Bride â Here in the Throat 0:3 (lastfm.spiegel.de....e/playlist)

Three people were missing after they were swept away by floodwaters and eight others were injured by fallen trees in Casiguran, which bore the brunt of the typhoon when it made landfall early Saturday with maximum winds of 120 mph. (www.usatoday.com....ines_x.htm)

The Washington Post; 4/4/1992; 87 words; Ramiz Alia , a former Communist leader who bowed to demands . country repudiated Albania's Stalinist past. Alia 's resignation swept away the last vestige . parliamentary elections and had vowed to oust Alia , who had ruled since 1985, rather than submit . Too late for tactics. (political changes in Albania (www.encyclopedia.com....Ramiz.html)

INTO THE WOODS is the show that got me loving Stephen Sondheim . The first time I saw it was in Toronto , in a production starring Louise Pitre as the Witch. It was love at first sight . Not only were his words masterful (duh!) but the melodies really swept me away (blogwaybaby.com/)

Surveying the wreckage, Sanders broke down and cried. But at other moments, he was philosophical about his loss. If there was anyone who should have got swept away by this tidal wave, it should have been us, he said. We were eyeball to eyeball with the wave. (www.lankalibrary.com....valady.htm)

He came and had a look. Barack had just begun his now famous DNC speech . And I just fell in love with him - like so many other people who watched that speech, and the many that have followed - I was swept away . (my.barackobama.com....ramey/CBS4)

Flash floods and floods are the #1 weather related killer with around 140 deaths recorded in the U.S. each year. In the picture above, the man and his child were swept away in their truck by water flowing over a roadway, before being rescued at the last minut (www.srh.noaa.gov....safety.php)

Lake County sheriff's officers were in the lake trying to retrieve boats swept away from marinas. By early Friday afternoon, officers had already recovered 16 boats, said Lt. Carl Dondorfer. Some of them were still attached to the docks, which floated alongside them in the open lake (www.usatoday.com....orms_x.htm)

One man clung to a tree as his car was swept away by flood water, county spokeswoman Darcy Fauci said. Sections of Interstate 88 east of Binghamton remained closed by mudslides Friday (www.usatoday.com....very_x.htm)

Nearly the whole of the abbey buildings, including the magnificent church, were swept away at the close of the 18th century. When the annexed ground-plan was taken, shortly before its destruction, nearly all the monastery, with the exception of the church, had been rebuilt. (historymedren.about.com...._cluny.htm)

The century-old earthen dam collapsed before dawn Tuesday after days of heavy rain swelled the Kaloko Reservoir behind it. The water swept away houses on two multimillion-dollar properties in the rugged hills of the island of Kauai, cutting a three-mile path of destruction to the sea. On Deadline Residents describe sound of dam breaking (www.usatoday.com....-dam_x.htm)

But there was no escaping the fact that Gigli swept the board at this year's event, achieving the feat of taking away an even bigger haul than last year's big "winner" Madonna and Guy Ritchie's Swept Away . (news.bbc.co.uk....496090.stm)

Continuing our retrospective series in anticipation of this year's awards in Thursday's Post, we come to 2002, the year of "Pluto Nash'' and "Swept Away .'' Just when it looked like movies couldn't get worse, we came up with "Gigli'' and "The Cat in the Hat'' the following year. My pieces appear on the jump (blogs.nypost.com....s/2007/11/)

Never has a lavender bush has been so carefully cut and then all traces were swept away afterwards. If I could have got out the hoover to clear up the floor, I would have. The result is a bumper harvest of lavender. I was amazed that there was so much. (plump-pudding.typepad.com....g/2007/09/)

Second, although prog rock was (partly) swept away by the DIY music of punk and post-punk, it's hard to see a similar process happening in politics. In music, barriers to entry were low. In politics they are not. (stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com....g/2007/09/)

Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist went behind the goal, then scrambled to recover as the puck was turned over. Daniel Briere shot. Lundqvist swept the puck away . in time (blogs.usatoday.com....007/05/02/)

The men , however, all went down during the night, with wonderful stories of how they had all been swept away by an avalanche , and how the "Bara Sahib" had beaten them with axes and long sticks, and was going to shoot them, and how - But is there any limit to the Tibetan imagination (www.billheidrick.com....lc0500.htm)

« Reply #4 on: Friday 26 October 07 16:31 BST (UK) » William John Tadden, one of the Spanish Civil War volunteers died at 38 Elizabeth Street, Dundee in 1937. Wherever it was, it was probably swept away after WWII. Logged (www.rootschat.com....139.0.html)

William John Tadden, one of the Spanish Civil War volunteers died at 38 Elizabeth Street, Dundee in 1937.  Wherever it was, it was probably swept away after WWI (www.rootschat.com....139.0.html)

Just to add I knew the area well as a child and that the top half of Elizabeth Street, between George Street and Commerce Street (later named Alexander Street) was where Maxwelltown Jute Mill was. The residential part was the other half which ran between Commerce Street and Ann Street. The whole area has been sadly swept away and is now covered by the 4 ' Maxwelltown ' multi (www.rootschat.com....139.0.html)

Shockingly enough I was in Florida last week to visit my family . And no nothing bad happened no Republicans chased me down the street and no hurricaines swept me away. It's a little known fact that I was indeed. (blogging.la/archives/2005/06/)

Chaudhry's fellow Supreme Court justices quashed his suspension in July. In October Musharraf was re-elected, and the following month he swept the court away by declaring emergency rule _ apparently because the judges were poised to rule his re-election unconstitutional. (www.foxnews.com....ge,00.html)

And on June 3, Davis' actual birthdate, the family will gather in Biloxi for the rededication of Beauvoir House, the hip-roofed, Gulf-front mansion where Davis spent the last 12 years of his life and which was nearly swept away by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 (www.foxnews.com....is,00.html)

Most cars can be swept away by less than two feet of moving water. Many floodrelated deaths are caused by people attempting to drive through floodwaters (www.redcross.org....58,00.html)

I have an older version of that map which shows Riggonhead. As implied in the reply above, I can only assume that it was swept away when the Blindwells Opencast Coal mine came its wa (www.rootschat.com....043.0.html)

Democrats who took over the House and Senate in the midterm elections in November have vowed to rewrite the 2006 law that swept away the detainees' access to U.S. courts. It was enacted by the then-Republican-controlled Congress at the request of the White House. (www.foxnews.com....84,00.html)

get back to her roots in the theater. She will play the part Madonna portrayed in the original production; by that logic, Alba is only a few years away from her own remake of Swept Away directed by Cash Warren (blog.allmovie.com/2007/11/)

Several thousand families are still living in temporary shelters, surviving on aid after the mud swept away their livelihoods and everything they owne (news.bbc.co.uk....407730.stm)

For any tech companies that have been swept away or failed to close their necessary rounds of financing in the last year (including a number of P2P companies that made it to O57;Reilly P2P SF but not to DC), the reasons seem obvious: they did not have a business plan that made them self sufficient within the first year (www.oreillynet.com....g/2002/02/)

Until now. The elements of radical change in the data center are coming together. It won57;t be fast, but like a leaking dike, a dozen and then hundreds of rivulets of change are coming together. When the dike gives way much will be swept away , just as the minicomputer companies were in the PC revolution . (storagemojo.com/2006/07/)

Under Haldeman, a myriad of other rules that governed even the most petty items have been swept away . For instance, a senior exec's magazine subscription once required six signatures, including the chief financial officer's. Haldeman plans to suspend the dress code - suits for men and dresses or pantsuits for women - for the summer (www.businessweek.com...._mz020.htm)

While October in Greece usually offers pleasant temperatures and clear days, this week has been a wild one for Greece. Strong storms have swept away cars, damaged buildings, and may Read More (gogreece.about.....200610.htm)

The relative property values then and now are startling. The article speaks of a widowed mother whose $4,000 home was badly damaged, a $27,000 bridge connecting St. George to the mainland being swept away , and a county commissioners contribution of $300 to clean up the debris left by the storm (www.redcross.org....72,00.html)

On the headwaters of the Pipe and Wegee Creeks and the Cumberland Run (small tributaries of the Ohio River near the town of Shadyside, Ohio), the runoff combined with landslides and developed into a 15-20 foot high wall of mud, water and debris that raced downstream. Buildings, bridges and cars were swept away and into the Ohio River (www.weather.com....ady90.html)

Scene 9: Through the night, the surging wall of water roars down the Columbia waterway, overtopping dam after dam and gaining momentum (and huge amounts of water) along the way. The cities of Wenatchee and Kennewick are inundated and largely swept away . A van of renegades retreats to Northern Idaho to hide (www.schneier.com....s/2006/06/)

The waves that thrashed into the Centre not only took the lives of seven of its staff and destroyed most of its buildings, they also swept away all the fish fry and shrimp larvae growing in surrounding tanks (www.fao.org....05/100214/)

Never attempt to drive through water Most cars can be swept away by less than two feet of moving water. Many flood-related deaths are caused by people attempting to drive through floodwaters. Floodwaters can erode quickly roadways, and a missing section of road even a missing bridge may not be visible with water running over the area. (www.redcross.org....09,00.html)

Pray to whatever god you know that he may rein down judgement upon Redmond, Washington. Pray that it is swept away by flood, buried in quicksand , or that a mountain will fall over on top of it. If no god is available, one will be assigned to you (gthing.net/2007/09/)

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong as its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept awa (quotations.about.com....elius1.htm)

On the fourth floor the ladies' bathroom had been sliced off just at the edge of the tub. The doorway itself had been swept away , but the door had swung back against the tub and remained attached to its hinges. (coloradoclues.com....er%202.htm)

The tannery was destroyed in a flood, caused by a cloudburst; everything was swept away . Richard Webster was a quaker; he would not sue those who owed him money, and he was almost ruined (www.zimdocs.bti....ella1.html)

Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday removed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass, reviving a rite that was all but swept away by the liberalizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council (www.npr.org....d=11813687)

The infant, bruised and covered in mud but otherwise healthy, was brought to the hospital hours after the tsunami struck Kalmunai, a remote town in eastern Sri Lanka that is home to Muslims and Tamils. It was partly cut off after a major bridge was swept away by the deadly waves (www.lankalibrary.com....baby81.htm)

Although five workers were swept away by a wave and one drowned, the designers at Nakheel believe the breakwater will protect the palm island from average gulf weather and even an enormous storm. They even suggest that villas barely 10 feet above sea level will be safe from the rising seas of global warming (travel.howstuffworks.com....-palm1.htm)

Also, along side the Grota da Areia, Manuel Botelho, son of another of the same name, was in danger of being swept away by the current when he went outside to unblock the channel that crosses the road in front of his house. (www.geocities.com....logy1.html)

BACK New community '); CellColorMouseOver(this);" onmouseout="ChangeText(infotxt); CellColorMouseOut(this);"> 1 Swept away '); CellColorMouseOver(this);" onmouseout="ChangeText(infotxt); CellColorMouseOut(this);"> 2 The Dilimanis '); CellColorMouseOver(this);" onmouseout="ChangeText(infotxt); CellColorMouseOut(this);"> 3 Settling in '); CellColorMouseOver(this);" onmouseout="ChangeText(infotxt); CellColorMouseOut(this);"> 4 No longer refugees '); CellColorMouseOver(this);" onmouseout="ChangeText(infotxt); CellColorMouseOut(this);"> 5 Living by the sea '); CellColorMouseOver(this);" onmouseout="ChangeText(infotxt); CellColorMouseOut(this);"> 6 Water shortage '); CellColorMouseOver(this);" onmouseout="ChangeText(infotxt); CellColorMouseOut(this);"> 7 Future plans '); CellColorMouseOver(this);" onmouseout="ChangeText(infotxt); CellColorMouseOut(this);"> 8   NEXT (news.bbc.co.uk....html/1.stm)

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 3 (Reuters) Eight people were killed by mudslides in the hills near the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro after heavy rain swept away flimsy homes in a poor district, rescue workers said on Sunday (www.reuters.com....SN03514819)



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