Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harlem drag balls, gents parade in costumes and personalities of their own baroque creation. Jennie Livingston's thrilling documentary is not just about what it means to be a member of the triple minority of gay black transvestites. It is a testament to the desire -- pathetic, heroic, overwhelming -- that all dreamers have for transcendence...
...room temperature zoom about at supersonic speed, they first have to be slowed down. In 1985 the invention of "optical molasses" by a research team at AT&T Bell Laboratories provided an ingenious solution to the problem. As its name implies, optical molasses uses light to create enough electromagnetic "drag" to bring wildly careering atoms to a screeching halt. Because the atoms lose virtually all their kinetic energy, they approach the perfect stillness of absolute zero, the frozen state at which motion ceases...
Since the failed coup in August, the country has been writhing in a last agony that, in the words of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, seemed to drag on "through some sort of sick eternity." Finally Yeltsin and the Presidents of Ukraine and Belorussia -- founding republics of the old union in 1922 and still its Slavic core -- decided to sign a death certificate: "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality, is ceasing its existence...
...alcoholic. Nora's closest bond seems to be with an old school friend, now a movie star, who induces the couple to take on the murder case. In this role, Christine Baranski, normally an actress of delicacy and insight, stomps about and grinds her jaw like a man in drag...
...most advanced classes, demonstrations become more difficult. "There is much you can't drag into the hall for show and tell. But, those [most advanced] courses aren't taught in the Science Center, so it doesn't matter," he says...