Word: drags
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Russell has always been quite up. He fell in love with film at age three, and at six was sometimes watching three movies a day. In nautical college he dismayed the commander by having the cadets do drag imitations of Betty Grable and Carmen Miranda. After a hitch in the R.A.F., he danced with the Norwegian ballet, finally took up still photography before making his name with BBC television biographies of artists...
...lost for a while in the '50s and early '60s, when sales dropped and the industry appeared headed for extinction. In a world where almost anything was possible and usually visible on a 21-in. screen, outracing a locomotive or buzzing around like an ugly bug in drag seemed somehow tame and tedious. Young readers today, the comic men soon discovered, are more interested in their own problems and the problems they see around them. It is possible, indeed, to see the comics as an art of the people, offering clues to the national unconscious. Superman...
...cooling-off period Oct. 6, but many ports are still clogged with backed-up vessels. Then, in October, some East and Gulf Coast dock workers walked out. Last week that stoppage spread to all but seven fairly small ports in the South, stranding some 200 ships. As the shutdowns drag on and fan out, the enormous number of businessmen who rely on shipping is increasingly hurt...
...gentlemen--let's face it--charming as women are--they get to be a drag if you are forced to associate with them each and every day. Think of the poor student who has a steady date--he wants to concentrate on the basic principles of thermodynamics, but she keeps trying to gossip about the idiotic trivia all women try to impose...
...profession," says the gynecologist, but we suspect he's not about to be canonized.) And when, after being hauled off to a roadhouse-brothel by his brothers, Laurent has a small measure of success with a prostitute, his drunken brothers spoil it all by bursting into the room to drag him from bed at a thoroughly inopportune moment...