Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...atmosphere of cultural confusion was palpable one recent night at the party to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Paper, the magazine of culture formation among the seriously hip. A good many of the names that show up in clubland gossip columns -- Veronica Webb, the model! Joey Arias, the drag queen! -- had shown up at the Supper Club, a party space in Manhattan's theater district. They were mixing with some of the high-concept personalities who have edged into more publicized realms. Like Lady Kier of Deee-Lite! (The recording group, something like the B-52s of house music.) Ricki...
...despite all efforts, the mood was a little shaky. Granted, at the big party a few weeks earlier for some liquor company, there were mud-wrestling drag queens. (No kidding.) But the problem that night didn't seem to be any lack of diversions. The very notion of 10 years on the downtown scene had led to melancholy reflections about what hip has come to. There was grumbling in the room along the lines of been-there/done-that. And if talk-show hostesses and prime-time starlets are hip -- Ricki Lake? Shannen Doherty? -- then what exactly can hip still mean...
...verge of declaring himself a Democrat. Continues the associate: "He didn't want to offend Tyson frontally and get in a lawsuit with the Feds when he was trying to position himself closer to Clinton, who he knew was a good friend of Tyson's. We decided to drag it out, to fight a rearguard action through extended negotiations. We decided to talk...
Poor baby. Forgive me for sounding harsh. But, despite what Mr. Siemens and his attorney would have you believe, this case isn't about students' rights or principles. It's about one high-schoolers acting ridiculous, as many high-schoolers do. Most, however, don't drag the judicial system into...
...program, Charles bemoaned the impudent incursions of the press -- though the royals are dependent on it. He griped about his job. Not only is this unseemly, it invites a flip riposte: if the job is such a drag, go back to farming, and let's call the monarchy off. This is no way to run a family business, and the time for royal self-indulgence has long since passed...