Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contestants are nice to look at -- knockouts, a couple of them. They are also played by men. This twist gives the burlesque a wierd glow and cues some wonderfully precise writing and acting. Pageant, conceived and directed by Robert Longbottom, never degenerates into drag queens unchained. Like Miss Industrial Northeast (Joe Joyce), who roller-skates while playing the Sabre Dance on her accordion, the show is perfectly poised on the precipice of farce. And like Miss West Coast (John Salvatore), who performs an interpretive dance called "The Seven Ages of Me," Pageant is all about ego and the denial...
...factory, while writing story after story. A sharp-eyed editor at the Atlantic Monthly suggested that one of Sayles' submissions -- already 50 pages long -- be expanded into a novel. It eventually became Pride of the Bimbos (1975), a darkly comic tale of an exhibition softball team that performs in drag...
These are not strong women who use their ingenuity, humanity and mother wit. They are Rambo in drag. They have a higher testosterone count than the national debt ceiling; they solve problems with artillery and adrenaline. And too many filmmakers, strapped by the conventions of the shoot-'em-up genre, think they are solving the problem of beefing up women's roles by turning them into beefcake. It's steroid screenwriting. Cameron wonders, Why can't a (modern) woman be more like a (mean) man? Then he makes her into...
Some economists argue that the luxury tax acts as a drag on consumer spending just as the economy is struggling to get out of recession. Moreover, the tax may be grossly inefficient. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the tax will generate $1.5 billion in revenues over five years. But Peter Scott, a former Internal Revenue Service official who now works for the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand, contends the tax will cost about twice that much just to enforce...
...York City subway train stocked with edgy white folks and one slouched and stuporous young black man, three inner-city toughs storm into the car. They shout at the black rider, then drag him to the floor and stomp on his face. The other passengers cringe, until the pummeling abruptly ceases and all four men rise smiling, as if for a curtain call. "Ladies and gentlemen!" one of the thugs intones with cultured geniality. "You have just witnessed another performance of Ghetto Theater...