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Word: draggings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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William W. Provost '88, who has directed several productions at Harvard, said he enjoyed the lecture because, "If an author doesn't know everything that is written into a text, then a director has the right to drag something out of the text that no one else has seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playwright Stoppard: Interpretation is Relative | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

WORKING SPACE stands as a valiant attempt by Stella to drag abstract painting back on the road of progress. But it's just one more intellectual breakdance in a field overrun by rhetorical jivin' and poppin'. After all, abstract painting is a mental art. Since abstraction is the mental process of selection and exaggeration, abstract art requires the intellectual equivalent of a Captain Video decoder ring to translate a picture into ordinary concepts...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Inter-Stella Space | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...relative locations of the nose, mouth, chin, eyes and forehead in one precisely matched the other." A number of art experts, however, remain unconvinced. Says Columbia University Art Historian James Beck: "As sure as the moon is not made of green cheese, this is not Da Vinci in drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 29, 1986 | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...most part, that gap is the legacy of an American dollar that was too strong in the first half of the decade. That made foreign goods cheap in the U.S. and U.S. exports too expensive in other countries, and the resulting trade imbalance has created a heavy drag on growth. But in recent weeks economists have become persuaded that the nearly two-year decline in the U.S. dollar may have finally triggered a turnaround in trade. "I think the data clearly show a cresting in the deficit," said Alan Greenspan, former chief economic adviser to President Ford. After hitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stamina, Not Speed | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...story may be historically true, and it may provide an apt analogue of current conditions in many parts of the Third World. But one suspects liberal show biz, carried away by its high-mindedness, of bending history to its own sanctimonious purposes. Dramatically too The Mission is a drag, almost as much as those Old Hollywood films like Stanley and Livingstone that mindlessly extolled colonialism's virtues. Indeed, this movie is rather worse than those benighted bio-pics because it confuses the importance of its subject with its own smug self-importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up the Creek the Mission | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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