Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WHAT a drag...
Duvernay's catchy score draws freely from themes of top T.V. shows, but the lyrics drag the tunes down...
...lyrics are as uneven as the script, sometimes worth a chuckle--more often not. The full-scale production numbers are entertaining spectacles as the various drag queens parade about to the howls of the audience. The soulful duets are less entertaining...
Among postwar American entertainers, none provoked that question more often than a kitsch pianist with a scullery maid's idea of a regal wardrobe, who for more than 40 years attracted stalwart Middle Americans to romps that he himself once characterized as "just that far away from drag." As a musician, Liberace was a panderer: he edited classics down to four to six minutes because, he said, his audience would not sit still for anything longer. He sang and tap-danced competently, no more. From the early 1950s, when his syndicated TV show appeared ten times a week...
...team used a computer analysis of wind and wave conditions on the Indian Ocean while turning out four prototypes, the last of which was Stars & Stripes. As for the keel, Marshall allows that it has a "shorter set of wings than Kookaburra, which means that there is less drag downwind." The U.S. boat is also extremely fast when headed into the wind -- an important advantage given that four of the eight legs of the 24.1-mile triangular course are sailed in that direction. Just to be extra sure, there is also one no-tech installation...