Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stricken star of Tootsie, due out later this year, making the film has been a complete drag. "His breasts fall down. The high heels hurt his feet. The makeup causes pimples, and the heat makes his beard show through after a couple of hours," says sympathetic Director Sydney Pollack. The breast-fallen lady he is referring to is that model of middle-aged primness, Dustin Hoffman, 44. In Tootsie, the actor renowned for his demanding perfectionism plays an actor so renowned for his demanding perfectionism that he finally has to go into distaff disguise to get a part. Tales...
...that we are all caught in the planetary claustrum and interconnection. National Geographic specials take us farther, more vividly, than we would have the courage or knowledge to go if we were traveling in body, not just in mind. The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in ragtop native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca...
...Guido Contini (Raul Julia) is a world-renowned movie mogul whose last three movies have been flops. He now has a contract for a new film and a producer, Liliane La Fleur (Liliane Monte-vecchi), who in her barbed tyrannical needling could pass muster as Erich von Stroheim in drag...
...settling the Falkland Islands dispute. Israeli bombs fell on southern Lebanon, but the Palestine Liberation Organization did not immediately retaliate. Resisting the pleas of religious zealots, the Israeli Cabinet voted unanimously to carry out the final withdrawal from the Sinai and sent in some 6,000 troops to drag defiant militants from the last Jewish settlement. The action cleared the way for Sunday's successful return of the Sinai to Egypt...
...heavily on housewives for daytime response. The physical agility test has been overturned as non-job-related in many localities, such as Jacksonville. In almost 40 years in the fire service, I have yet to carry anyone up a flight of stairs for a rescue. I prefer instead to drag a person along the floor and down the stairs, both to stay below the heat and smoke and to permit better balance for myself...