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Word: draggings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whom, but Julie and Jean soon overcome their inhibitions, and when Christine falls asleep, the two find an excuse to flee to the bedroom. Immediately after, they realize that the ensuing scandal could destroy them both, and in their argument over how to escape their predicament, each tries to drag the other through the slime of ultimate degradation...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Guns of August | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

...MAIDS, Satirikon Theater, Moscow. In drag and wearing extravagant eye makeup, Konstantin Raikin stars in a rare Russian version of Jean Genet's sadomasochistic melodrama, directed by Roman Viktyuk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soviet Sampler | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...example of what had gone on down at Columbia as something to give us a little advice about it. The decision from my point of view was very simple. I said, 'Either we get the police and throw these people out right now, or this is going to drag on for weeks and months and it's just not going to stop...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: From Cambridge to Berkeley---'A Wild Year' Nationwide | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

Fresh off a Greyhound bus in Atlanta, Kelly lodged six months with a "crazy pimp" he'd met on the street. "Whores, drag queens would give me their money to hold for them," he said. "People liked me." In Atlanta he decorated Yves Saint Laurent windows for free. ("He was my hero. I tried to do them just the way Mr. Saint Laurent would have wanted them.") A job sorting clothes for Amvets gave Kelly access to discarded Chanel suits and old beaded gowns. Soon he had his own antique-clothing boutique. When ends didn't meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Original American In Paris: PATRICK KELLY | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...plan still faces several bureaucratic hurdles. But the real test will come when Los Angeles' 8 million car lovers begin to feel the pinch. This is, after all, the city synonymous with freeways, drag races and even the drive- through church. As a former resident puts it, "In L.A. the first question is not What do you do? but What do you drive?" Will Angelenos really trade their Ferraris for car pools and their fuel-injected Chevy V-8s for electric roadsters? That remains to be seen. "We're for cleaner air, for damn sure," says Robert Harnar, a public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Drastic Plan to Banish Smog | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

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