Word: dragging
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...film's strength, however, comes from another place: the unblinking objectivity with which it views their trials. The children are not sentimentalized (though we worry about the emptiness of their days as they drag along in the grownups' wake). Bilal is not idealized (his generosity is balanced--or maybe one should say unbalanced--by his impetuosity), and neither is Julia. Caring and good-natured though she is, we can't help being disturbed by the fact that all her motherly alarm bells seem to be disabled...
...problem may be a more dynamic and educated populace that chooses to analyze the issues itself. Until we make the political market more egalitarian and until the political currency changes from dollars to discourse, we will continue to have a quasi-democratic system where an involved few drag along, kicking and screaming, an indifferent many...
...only real solution to the problem may be a more dynamic and educated populace that chooses to analyze the issues itself. Until we make the political currency changes from dollars to discourse, we will continue to have a quasi-democratic system where an involved few drag along, kicking and screaming, an indifferent many...
...once a distinguished scholar in literature (he's published several books and is a regular contributor for The New York Times Book Review), Kiely is also the master who dressed up as a nun at drag night to sing "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" from The Sound of Music. On one hand, he is half of the debonair couple that always makes a splash at House waltzes and swings, and on the other is an enthusiastic participant in the festivities of St. Patrick's Day, serving Black and Tans and step dancing...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the least Balkan of men, formulated the American theology of forward spin. He might have been speaking to the Balkans when he asked, "Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory...