Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thanks to a Cambridge ordinance, smoking is banned in the building, and this tower, like offices all over the city, has its share of addicts grabbing a quick drag right outside the front doors. There is something not quite right about this. Bureaucracy and fluorescent lights should be complemented by cigarettes and bad coffee with instant creamer...
...would be some time -- about half a century after Harnett's death, in fact -- before another and more reclusive American, Joseph Cornell, would drag his fine net through the junk stores of New York and turn what it caught into frail, unique feats of the imagination that reach beyond illusionism and nostalgia. One can't not enjoy Harnett, but he is not an artist one should overrate...
After more than 90 minutes of nonstop kicks, leaps and turns, the 27 dancers, sweating through their leotards, are beginning to drag. But Mark Morris, the precisionist putting them through these paces, is unmoved by their exhaustion. "A little dynamism would help," he drawls, drawing on the Dunhill cigarette he has been using to tap out the beat...
Most of the time, the unoriginal music and uninspired lyrics drag through songs that are way too long. Not even "Bend" is spared from lines such as "you're my paper friend/see you hanging on my wall/I thought I lost you friend/but you were never lost...
...ONLY HORSE SHIT in Old Quebec now isdropped by the few big beasts who drag the heavynew carriages, pulling tourists through the townfor 50 bucks a pop. It is quickly swept away,before it can offend the sensitive nostrils of theout-of-town visitors...