Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bullfighter and a woman lawyer, believing that death is the ultimate climax, impale each victim on the cold steel of their lust. Law of Desire draws a bent triangle: a gay movie director, his transsexual sister (Maura) and her adopted child's rightful mother (played by a Spanish drag queen). Revelations of murder, incest, suicide and lotsa hot sex follow, but the tone remains knowing, tender. As Matador is about desire, Law is about caring; the first picture is a morgue shot, the latter a cardiogram. The film is as heartfelt as the tears that seep from behind its hero...
...swinging an 8-lb. splitting maul, breaking up oak and birch trunks. Myself is feeling sorry for himself. Our back is stiff from yesterday's firewood fun. Our right wrist, broken years ago in a skiing accident, signals that it is time to stop. Middle-aged men drag themselves through life like wounded bears, it occurs...
Everywhere, officials and rescuers pleaded for more cranes and heavy equipment to drag slabs of concrete and twisted pillars off trapped people...
...perfectly natural that the new administration will need some time to get its bearings in the complexity of domestic and international problems. But it is very important not to drag out this period," Tass said...
...forget Harvard. The women "shaved" and "tapered" for the meet, going all out to win in their home pool. If one "shaves" one removes all the hair from the body in order to decrease drag. To "taper is to cut down on the length and intensity of practices before a meet so that one is rested for the meet...