Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French Foreign Ministry. They contend it results in the papering over of contentious details that may crop up later to wreck a seeming agreement. Holbrooke's answer is that stopping to iron out all the details is a sure formula for having negotiations--and war and bloodshed--drag on forever...
Since August, the tightly wound Holbrooke has been at the center of the action. Reporters are likely to find him in the early hours of the morning roaming hotel corridors in his bare feet, looking for someone he can drag into his room to chat with while keeping one eye on cnn. He power-naps for 15 minutes or so, sometimes during meetings while supposedly listening to a translation. Aide Rosemarie Pauli-Gikas is assigned, among other tasks, to pinch him awake at the right moment...
...None, however, has utilized the idea quite like Art Matters Inc., a New York City-based foundation that supports artists. Since 1985 the foundation has distributed $3 million to 3,000 artists, helping pay for such works as Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston's 1990 film about transsexuals and drag queens. The group has also aggressively battled cuts in federal arts funding, taking part, for example, in a successful 1990 lawsuit to prevent the nea from denying funding to artists just because their work is perceived by some as offensive...
...achieves through painting what the rest of the Boston School do through photography. It is unfortunate that the work represented in the exhibition is not Tabboo!'s best, but the pieces at the ICA give the viewer an idea of some of his concerns gay art and the drag subculture. For example, the flamboyant gesture of "Pink," which is a picture of the word "pink" painted in different shades of pink, plays on the association of pink with gay culture...
Resident drama tutor David L. McMahon '94 commented that Drag Night has evolved over the years. "Some years in the past it's been a very serious event," he said. "Now it's much more open and lighthearted...