Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie on location, with no permits and a minimal crew. The gritty starkness of the scenes gives the movie a sincere, authentic feel. When the six friends go out to a nightclub, Araki uses the dim, reddish lights, loud generic music and their encounter with two guys in drag to convey the raw alienation of the kids...
...spectacle of men getting dressed up as divas and belting out Verdi in falsetto may seem a specialized taste. But the appeal of La Gran Scena goes well beyond that of your usual drag show. As they are currently demonstrating on their seven-city U.S. tour (this week: Sun Desert, California), these divas can convulse mainstream audiences; and they are not only consummate clowns, but they can really sing...
...Gran Scena's brand of burlesque may owe much to Mel Brooks and the Marx Brothers, not to mention the late drag master Charles Ludlam. But it is also clearly an inside job -- the work of connoisseurs who, even in falsetto and falsies, have a keen understanding of the magnificent excess that makes this art form so compelling...
...helm, the margin of victory may depend more on technology than seamanship. If the Australians won in 1983 -- the first and only time a challenger has wrested away the Cup -- it was mostly because of their newfangled keels flanked by little wings to diminish underwater drag. If Koch, a multimillionaire with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from M.I.T., trounced four-time winner Conner and the Italian finalist, Gardini, in the last Cup, it was because he built four boats only to settle on the one with the sleekest hull, stiffest mast and lightest sails made from a revolutionary carbon fiber/polymer...
...have no idea what personal problems Brandon has with Paul Hanson and Senior Tutor Greg Mobley, but to drag the entire house into them by publically demanding a House referendum is egotistically pathetic. --Mike Evers...