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Word: draggings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shepherd's rendition of Mozart's comic bird catcher with a heart of gold kept the audience howling with his playful comedic routines and impish humor, making up for his mostly inadequate voice. On the whole, his playful antics and spirit added greatly to the production which tended to drag on as the hours progressed...

Author: By Lea A. Saslav, | Title: Flat Flute | 3/14/1986 | See Source »

Garbed in a black skirt, leather cowboy boots and pearls--quite a contrast from the Amish habit she donned for Witness--the svelte blond-haired actress leaned forward in her chair, taking a long drag on her cigarette. "This is only what I believe, you know. There are no rules in acting. Everyone is an individual who has to make his own choices...

Author: By Lea A. Saslav, | Title: Actress Bears Witness to Hollywood Stardom | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

...mother. Now 76, with arthritis, she does two hours of Callanetics daily and looks as trim as her 46-year-old daughter. The author does an hour a week, in her book enough for most people. "I hate exercising," she groans. "It's a bore and a drag." Not like book publishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Exercise in Best-Selling Lesson 3: | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...says. The one skit he rejected: portraying a gay hairstylist. There was, however, much skirting of the bounds of propriety, including a catty reference to Reagan's first wife, Jane Wyman, and a portrayal of Nancy as a chain-smoking lush by an actor in Adolfo-like drag. One White House aide thought the whole thing tasteless. Said he: "Some birthday present to his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'M Trying to Have Fun | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...best savored on a warm Friday evening along West Hollywood's main artery, Santa Monica Boulevard. There, a black-clad Lubavitcher family straight out of 19th century Lithuania strolls past a bus bench shared by a sneering heavy-metal-music freak with a slime green Mohawk and a drag queen done up as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Across the way, a convenience store advertises European specialties in Russian Cyrillic characters. And up the boulevard rolls a procession of white stretch limos, trundling the show-biz glitterati (and their accountants and orthodontists) to West Hollywood's tonier night spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Hollywood: Exotic Mix | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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