Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figure out the riddle of Anshel's identity. Amy Irving, of the honeyed voice and witchcrafty allure, makes the role of an old-fashioned woman sexy and smart. And Streisand has fun playing a woman out of her time, a figure of both feminism and fun. In rabbinical drag she could pass for the comic David Brenner; in the tender scenes with Irving, she is the sassy Brooklyn girl coming to appreciate a Jewish Lithuanian princess...
Sparger (Eric Ronis) is an actor whose underground theater work and homosexual tendencies seemed to come into existence when Kennedy died. At 16, after three sailors mistakenly pick him up in drag and beat him, he crawls into a coffeehouse and begins a new form of theater with two speed freaks, becoming a caricature of himself. Ronis' performance is the most striking, strong enough to steal the stage, yet held in check. We feel his pain. And the strength of his portrayal is rivaled by that of a method one heroine addict named Mark (Harold Langsam), fresh from the Vietnam...
...increasingly competitive environment created by the 1978 deregulation of the airline industry, TWA has become a drag on the parent corporation's earnings. It has suffered operating deficits for three of the past four years, losing a total of $133.5 million during that period. The 16-member board decided that it was "in the best interest of Trans World shareholders" to divide the parent corporation into two companies: an airline with more than $3 billion in annual revenues and a hotel, restaurant and real estate firm with $2 billion worth of business. Under the proposed spinoff, Trans World stockholders...
...comedian's boyfriend, Howard Rose, an architect and dues-paying Friar, and she began working on her disguise a month ago. "I thought they would have a sense of humor about it," says Diller. But the club's brass, which may reprimand Rose, found the stunt a drag in every way. Club Director Jean-Pierre Trebot vows to "increase security." How? Well, he concedes, "we're not about to frisk everybody...
...suggested that to achieve higher minor-ky voter registration we should simply drag people in to register, and then to vote...