Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bumpers is hardly the only Senator who dislikes Helms. "There's a lot of irritability about him trying to drag us through a lot of issues we just don't need to deal with," observes one moderate Republican. Neither is the North Carolinian considered an effective legislator by his colleagues: rather than focus on one issue, Helms decided to offer a passel of bills and amendments, thus muddying his own agenda. "He can block, but he can't pass," noted an aide to the Senate leadership. At least one conservative Republican who knows a little about lost...
...burn, that long look into the lens." Surely Jonathan Winters was the inspiration for such Carson characters as the garrulous Aunt Blabby, the right-wing dimwit Floyd R. Turbo, even the huckstering greaseball Art Fern. Carnac the Magnificent is Steve Allen's Answer Man in swami's drag, and the Mighty Carson Art Players are Fred Allen's Mighty Allen Art Players with unreliable props. Carson's borrowings are leavened with respect and an originality that will run a thematic risk-"take left turns," as McCormick says-without becoming reckless. "He had an unfailing instinct...
Hoping to have the matter settled before the legislators took off for the summer to campaign for re-election, proponents quickly brought the question to the House floor. But there, they found unexpectedly strong opposition. Not only did the discussion in the lower chamber drag on, but a majority of the members approved a pair of amendments that effectively reversed the original meaning of the statement--to insist that a freeze take place only when the Russians cleaned up their act in Poland, and saw the error of 35 years of foreign policy, and withdrew from Eastern Europe...
...possible link between diesel exhaust and cancer guaranteed a long regulatory fight. Harvard's track record on questions like these is spotty; it has invariably sought to do the bare minimum it can to escape state environmental regulations. So rather than immediately getting into a new, knock-down, drag-out fight over technical minutiae. Harvard should ask for a moratorium on proceedings for the hearings. The communities which have successfully fought Harvard would certainly agree...
...plot is straightforward boy-meets-girl and depends on such conventions as a villain in a top hat and rescuers in disguises (one does a drag impersonation of Queen Victoria). The stage is tiny and the choreography consequently minimal, yet in one serendipitous moment a painted cloth is lit from behind to become a foggy, gaslit, sweeping vista of a Sherlock Holmes-style England...