Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guerrillas, armed with homemade grenades, rifles and Molotov cocktails. Said one youthful warrior: "Iraqis have never seen this type of war. They still cannot figure out how essentially unarmed men can beat tanks. O.K. They shoot us-one, two, three or ten. But finally, we set the tank ablaze, drag them out and tear them to pieces. They have seen it happen to their colleagues. They try to avoid it themselves...
Maddy DeLone, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, said yesterday the kiosk rule could hurt attendance at student drama productions. "It's a phenomenal drag," she added...
...recent albums. Bowie has let his personal obsessions re-enter his music, and he's now better equipped to animate them. Those obsessions appear with a clarity here that far exceeds any of Bowie's past work, obsessions with violence, with anger, with decay and with death--not with drag, make-up or the trappings of the facile entertainer. With thoughts like those, and with music like this, Bowie fashions a decadence that tears and scratches at a decadent world...
...careful who you pick up," Arthur says as he surveys the man's retreating reflection in the rear-view mirror. Arthur takes another drag of his cigarette. "If that first cab hadn't offered the guy a fare, then I wouldn't either. Something would've been wrong. You got to protect yourself...
...speech tends to drag; the reporters, who make up a third of the crowd, keep looking over their shoulders at the 30-foot cross that will be burned to cap the evening. But the real audience, most of whom look like they arrived on motorcycles, won't let him stop. "Send the fuckers back," they yell when he talks about refugees; and when he mentions that a high proportion of the Cubans "don't like the things that other men like," they all start screaming, "faggot, queer." Welfare is unpopular, as is charity, deemed "communist." A beery tough asks...