Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope my son doesn't turn out like this," Streep quipped as she hugged Douglas Fitch '81, who sings and dances--in drag--in this year's Pudding production, "A Little Knife Music...
Already blamed by teachers for allowing the confused school crisis to drag on for eleven weeks, Mayor Byrne seemed to be in for more trouble when the city's fire fighters walked out of contract negotiations and announced to confused Chicagoans that they would call a strike but "continue to man some equipment." Last week that was more than the teachers were willing...
...There are three or four extras who'll be in practically every opera, then a circle of 15, and then a full corps of 30 or 40. Finally, for mass operas of about 75, they will drag in people from wherever they can. The assistant stage manager might get them from a certain college or theatrical organization or even the YMCA. For example, in the trample scene of Aida they needed so many people they used some football team from a high school in New Jersey. I, of course, taken as a young recruit, started off on that level...
Khomeini's zeal for theocracy has led to the charge that he is seeking to drag Iran back to the Middle Ages. One scholar argues instead that the Ayatullah is something of an innovator in his application of the Shari'a to contemporary situations. Certainly his justification of the students' seizure of the hostages has no precedent in Muslim jurisprudence. Although he can be mysteriously vague about programmatic approaches to specific political and economic issues, Khomeini has a social philosophy that Hamid Enayat of Oxford sums up in this manner: "The country should be content with a simple...