Word: drag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young black woman named Sapphire needs three friends to drag aboard a heavy wooden crate, a cross between a coffin and footlocker. Just in from Sonoma, Linden Brolin, a skinny, blond woman in jeans and a black T shirt, with her three-year-old son Bjorn in tow, keeps asking around for a place to park her camper till she gets back from Tucson. "You won't believe this," she confides, "but I'm 37." You were about to guess 35. Laid-back Dennis Watkins says he's "going to Baja to see the whales...
...workers mature and acquire job savvy in the '80s, they should cease to be a drag on productivity. It is also faintly reassuring that the productivity slowdown has not been uniformly severe throughout the economy but at its worst in a few industries: mining and utilities, which have been most deeply affected by new antipollution and safety rules; construction, where outmoded building codes have held back the use of new technology; and retail sales. Stores have been staying open nights and Sundays to satisfy shoppers' demands for more convenience; the longer hours force them to hire more workers...
...dark side and expose it to the audience. As Pompey the whoremaster (Mark Cartier) gives the audience a tour of the riff-raff in the prison, he opens trapdoors in the stage floor which serve as cell doors--and long arms reach out, grabbing for him, trying to drag him down. It's a good bit of stage business, and it's also an eerie picture of the starved world of Measure for Measure, sucking its inhabitants into the abyss...
They are the high priests of libido--Malone is gloriously handsome, haunted by a vision of ideal love unattainable in a sterile, superficial homosexual world, Gatsby in drag; Sutherland, a Quentin Crisp, queer before it became chic, is doomed by his undersized member, a homosexual leper. With his speed and Quaaludes, his chiffons and Estee Lauder and bridge games and Egyptian groupies, Sutherland is Holleran's one truly brilliant creation. Sutherland provides much of the bitchy humor that makes Dancer, if nothing else, one of the funnier books of the year...
...affair, which arose because of a scientific error about the extent of sunspot activity in the late 1970s and its effect on Skylab. By spewing out clouds of charged particles, these great solar magnetic storms help heat up and expand the earth's upper atmosphere. That creates more drag for objects in orbit, hastening their reentry. Confronted by a falling Skylab, NASA last spring began developing the $26 million booster engine. But it was clear, especially after troubles with the shuttle's own engine, that a Skylab rescue could not be undertaken before April 1980. By then, chances...