Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...musical salesmanship of perky Marcy McGuigan, tomboyish Debra Barsha, sassy Jackie Sanders and little-girl-lost Emily Loesser (Frank's daughter), this band echoes Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators, the outfit Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis joined in Some Like It Hot. Appropriately, Charles Busch, the off-Broadway drag star who co-authored Swingtime's mint-thin book (with Linda Thorsen Bond and William Repicci), is now playing Marian...
...Swingtime Canteen is not an excuse for a drag show. It is an evocative balancing act of music and comedy, parody and sentiment. The girls strut their tight harmonies with an Andrews Sisters medley--12 songs!--that's a wowser. And they escalate into feeling with I'll Be Seeing You. This gorgeous rendition works as a reminder of what the boys were fighting for, and what any struggle--war in the '40s, AIDS in the '90s--means to the combatants: pain and loss, and a sweet, frail hope...
...maddeningly slow to make equipment available. IntelCom Group, a Denver-based provider of alternative service, charged in an Federal Communications Commission complaint three months ago that U.S. West had failed to furnish high-capacity phone lines on schedule 83% of the time. The Bells "have obviously tried to drag this out and delay things," says J. Shelby Bryan, the president of IntelCom. "It's historic monopoly thinking...
...mildly--with students who consider the Yard no more than a giant and exceedingly well-decorated ashtray. I have lost all sympathy with those who insist, between smoke rings, that denying them their prerogative to drag constitutes an infringement on their fundamental rights. I will hear no more talmudic debates on whether the founders of this nation meant to ensure the ability of each and every last citizen to poison themselves as they...
...totalitarian regimes of the '30s-Nazism in Germany and Central Europe, Fascism in Italy, Stalinism in the Soviet Union-had wiped entire countries off the map of modernist culture. Though modernism had long flirted with the idea of historical amnesia, treating the past as though it were a drag on invention, it was not equipped to deal with the actual destruction of that past by war and ideology. Whole tracts of culture-German Romanticism; classical sculpture, with its image of the ideal, prosperous body-had been laid waste, fatally contaminated, by the use the Nazis had made of them, just...