Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...someone talking to herself late at night. Her thoughts on everything from photography to the gulf conflict are spoken as her songs are written and sung: in a tone of quiet asperity, but with public emphasis. "If this is a holy war," she muses about the gulf, taking a drag on one of her frequent cigarettes, "God is pissed at us, and damn right." Just goes to show: a little dissonance does no harm. And it can certainly make a fine Night Ride Home...
Even if the withdrawal did begin, the allies feared, Iraq might drag it out for weeks. (Their fears were confirmed a day later, when Iraq made the 21-day proposal.) Besides allowing Saddam to withdraw and save his tanks and artillery, one American official noted, the proposal amounted to saying, "Give me a couple more weeks so I can kill some more Kuwaitis...
...High Speed, Low Drag. Phrase indicating that an operation went exactly...
...Pudding show is entertaining. Face it, you're not going there for an Aristotelian evocation of cathartic pity and fear. You're going there to hear bawdy jokes and to see your male classmates in drag...
...does the play drag so? For one, Family Secrets is obscenely overwritten. The first two acts consist almost entirely of the grandmother reminiscing about her life. Again and again, Diane asks a question or shows Theresa a photo which triggers her grandmother to say, "God, that brings back memories." She then starts an interminable monologue about escaping from Warsaw during the Nazi occupation, or coming to America, or her late husband Joe. These speeches present a detailed and authentic-sounding portrait of Eastern European immigrants, but so what? The details have nothing to do with the plot and, more important...