Word: drag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ross's masterpiece was Pinehurst, which he laboriously molded out of the sand hills of North Carolina by using mule-drawn drag-pans. Overnight. Pinehurst became the mecca of American golf. The idea of building a resort at Pinehurst was the brainstorm of another Bostonian, the soda-fountain magnate James W. Tufts. On Monday, April 10, the Harvard golfers open the new season with a dual match against Tufts and Amherst
Likewise, just as act two begins to drag, it is saved by Josh Kratka's walk-on as M. Purgon, Argan's doctor. Looking and acting like Dr. Frankenstein, Kratka devastated the audience while cursing Argan for refusing an enema. With his slapstick antics he stole the scene (and very possibly the show) from everyone...
Some Christian Democrats would not mind if Italy's political crisis continued to drag on for a while. They fear that a gain for the Italian Communists might help the French Reds at the polls, which in turn would strengthen Italian Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer's hand. As one Christian Democratic Deputy put it: "An agreement with the Communists here would be a joli cadeau (pretty gift) for Georges Marchais, just as victory for the left in France would be a merveilleux cadeau for the Communists here...
...contemplates with foreboding. The supervisor is compelled to give the offending employee 90 days' notice before he issues the bad grade. During this time, the employee is able to build up a substantial defense. He can then make a series of appeals with full-dress hearings that can drag on for months. Understandably, managers prefer to give everybody a passing grade in order to avoid the hassle...
...moviegoing audience. He borrows conceits from Bergman and Bunuel to show off his superficial knowledge of art-house movies. He strives for incoherence in the belief that pointless ambiguity can pass for an avant-garde aesthetic. He tries to arrive at dramatic truth by letting fuzzy conversations drag on interminably...