Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...musical was adapted by ART artistic director Robert Brustein from a children's story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. But the adaptation is neither sharp nor captivating-instead it relies heavily on slapstick gags and cheap one-line jokes to drag its way through a simple story. Singer's morality tale here is not expanded or satirized; rather, it is presented and left to lie like cold chicken soup, sans matzoh balls, vegetables or even chicken. The adaptation fails to challenge the audience in the slightest, and is not even successful in its irreverence. Much of 'Shlemiel' simply insults both...
...Tuesday, I guess it was the 24th, I got bored, and ended up singing "Memory" in drag in Beach Bums cabaret in Miami. That gig lasted a few days, until my voice broke and my stockings...
...about sacrifice. She may have escaped her marriage in search of love, but there was no escaping us. Her grip on our imagination was too firm, the bounty on her head too high. By choosing to continue with her duties, to go where she was needed and drag the spotlight with her, she gave up any chance of ever driving quietly through Paris on an August night...
Clinton is accompanied by three or four state police, who nod politely as he explains how the long-term future of Medicare could affect the upcoming school-board race in Calhoun County. Along the route, homeowners rush out, grab their daughters off porch gliders and drag them inside...
...poles that serves local neighborhoods. Deregulation allows them to ride the incumbent's system, but here's where the static begins: they must rely on the tender mercies of the Bells and GTE to put them into customers' homes. That gives AT&T's enemies every incentive to drag their feet, first by challenging the terms of agreements to carry AT&T local traffic and then by taking their sweet time to switch over customers who request AT&T service...