Word: drag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sailing through the House last month largely intact, President Carter's energy program ran into rough weather in the past two weeks, during the early stages of its passage through the Senate. On the floor and in the opening committee skirmishes of a battle that is likely to drag on through the fall, the Senate reflected deep disagreement with parts of the plan. Unlike the House, the Senate is tackling the omnibus bill piecemeal; a few of the proposed changes strengthen the program but most weaken...
WHEN JESSICA MITFORD was a young teenager in London, her governess used to drag her to Hyde Park on Sundays. She would often wander over to where the soap-box orators held forth. One day, she heard someone sing the Internationale, and misunderstood the words. Instead of "the final conflict," Mitford thought the song referred to the class struggle as "the fine old conflict...
...RECIPE sounds like a sure-fire concoction for comic relief: take on pudgy post-pubescent with an effeminate face and a flair for tight-fitting French jeans and outmoded platform shoes; garnish with a sissy's voice and a drag queen's propensities. Serve in a Toronto beauty salon. Now take one long-haired schizo on the lam from the local loony bin, throw in a few touches of outward normalcy--a good eye for fashionable apparel, decidedly hetero leanings, and a good old-fashioned motherly instinct--and dash with an urge to write whacked-out tales for her beloved...
Outrageous! requires a certain level of tolerance, and Anita Bryant groupies should attend at their own risk. Seeing drag queens prance and posture for the better part of two hours might take a few straights aback at first, but the initial revulsion fades fast as the guffaws start surging. Outrageous! plunges its audiences into the gay sub-culture, taking an unblinking gaze at the foibles and hangups of its members. But this is no Boys in the Band apologia for homosexuals. The film does not fish for either compliments or pity from its viewers; Turner and his fellow female impersonators...
WHILE A SENSE of continuity is hardly lacking here, isolated scenes stick in the mind much more than any self-indulgent moralizing, on which Outrageous! happily skimps. The film's showstopper comes in a stunning ten-minute medley of impersonations that Turner unveils in a trendy drag bar in uptown Manhattan. Knowing that the gig amounts to his Big Break in the business, Turner pulls out all the stops as he belts out, "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." We hear Channing's raps, Ella's scat-singing, Dietrich's off-keys and a host of other readily recognizable...