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* Played straight in "The Saddest Music in the World": Narcissa sings "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" while sitting on an elaborately decorated swing |
* Played straight in "The Saddest Music in the World": Narcissa sings "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" while sitting on an elaborately decorated swing |
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* Kenneth Branagh's ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' had Beatrice on a swing. |
* Kenneth Branagh's ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' had Beatrice on a swing. |
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* Unsexy variation in ''[[ |
* Unsexy variation in ''[[10 Things I Hate About You]]'': Patrick sits Kat down on the swings when she's drunk at the [[Wild Teen Party]] and tries to keep her from passing out. They have a little bit of a "moment," and then she pukes on his shoes. |
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** Later, there's a scene where Kat looks down from her bedroom window to see Bianca sitting on a tire swing, dressed in notably little-girlish clothes, and [[Cool Big Sis|decides to go to the prom so Bianca can, too]]. |
** Later, there's a scene where Kat looks down from her bedroom window to see Bianca sitting on a tire swing, dressed in notably little-girlish clothes, and [[Cool Big Sis|decides to go to the prom so Bianca can, too]]. |
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* The first ''[[Bring It On]]'' movie has a scene where Torrance sits on a swing. |
* The first ''[[Bring It On]]'' movie has a scene where Torrance sits on a swing. |
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== [[Literature]] == |
== [[Literature]] == |
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* ''[[The Sound and The Fury]]'': The swing in the garden is the site of one of Caddy's first trysts with a boyfriend, and [[Book Ends|much later]], her daughter Quentin also goes there with a boy. |
* ''[[The Sound and The Fury]]'': The swing in the garden is the site of one of Caddy's first trysts with a boyfriend, and [[Book Ends|much later]], her daughter Quentin also goes there with a boy. |
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* Kristina, one of the heroines in Vilhelm Moberg's ''[[The Emigrants]]'' novels, is fond of swinging and continues to do it in secret even when she's an adult. She first met her husband, Karl Oskar, while recovering from a wounded knee after she fell out of a swing, and interprets it as a sign that God makes bad things happen only so good things can come out of them. The musical adaptation, ''Kristina från Duvemåla'', opens with Kristina on her swing. |
* Kristina, one of the heroines in Vilhelm Moberg's ''[[The Emigrants]]'' novels, is fond of swinging and continues to do it in secret even when she's an adult. She first met her husband, Karl Oskar, while recovering from a wounded knee after she fell out of a swing, and interprets it as a sign that God makes bad things happen only so good things can come out of them. The musical adaptation, ''Kristina från Duvemåla'', opens with Kristina on her swing. |
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* Subverted in ''Superwally: The Advanced Wally Manual'' by Paul Manning, which describes "Wallettes" as sitting on the swings in public playgrounds to gossip, and swearing at small children who want a go. Not cute ''or'' hot. |
* Subverted in ''Superwally: The Advanced Wally Manual'' by Paul Manning, which describes "Wallettes" as sitting on the swings in public playgrounds to gossip, and swearing at small children who want a go. Not cute ''or'' hot. |
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== [[Real Life]] == |
== [[Real Life]] == |
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* [[wikipedia:Evelyn Nesbit|Evelyn Nesbit]], the "Girl on the Red Velvet Swing". |
* [[wikipedia:Evelyn Nesbit|Evelyn Nesbit]], the "Girl on the Red Velvet Swing". |
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== [[Theater]] == |
== [[Theater]] == |
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