Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meetings will probably drag on for months. American bankers have shown they are able to back up tough talk with firm action. Brazil, for its part, gives no sign of softening its aggressive posture. One side -- or both -- will have to give a lot of ground...
...clamor on our doorsteps, demanding its due. This is quite literally true in the case of the Steenwijks, for the Resistance has chosen their quiet street as the perfect place to assassinate a particularly vile Nazi collaborator. He is hit in front of a neighboring house, but its inhabitants drag his corpse next door so that the reprisals, which everyone knows will be swift and terrible, will be directed at the Steenwijks...
Ironically, the current system's most visible fault--unnecessary complexity--works to create the more substantial problem of homogeneity within the houses. As the weeks drag on, the importance of where one will live seems to increase; the more time devoted to the house-selecting process, the more important the whole ordeal appears. And since freshmen--barricaded in the Yard and consequently isolated from the houses--have little idea of what house life is really like, they are all too likely to get caught up in the lottery hysteria and give undue weight to stereotypes and indeed, to the entire...
...would fully recover. There had been one Warhol before the shooting; another would emerge after it. The former had been the onlooker, both fascinated and wounded by media culture and its power to dictate desire and nostalgia. You could not look at early Warhol (Marilyn-as-virgin, in full drag-queeny apotheosis on a gold ground; Golgotha, envisioned in repeated views of an $ execution chamber with its electric chair and its sign enjoining SILENCE) without sensing that the pressure behind such images of abased sanctity came from a Byzantine Catholic boyhood...
Blessing's best previous work has been about families: War of the Roses (1985), a knock-down, drag-out marital combat, and Eleemosynary (1986), a dark comedy about how parents live through their children. Walk, by contrast, features provocative political notions: that deadly arsenals are essential to being a superpower ("Without nuclear weapons, America is Canada, only with more people") and that the prospect of Armageddon is titillating to much of mankind ("The most exciting thing in the world is to know we can destroy the world. Like that...