Word: nag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instincts in dealing with Madigan, his wife, and the Police Commissioner; consequently, Madigan's death doesn't resolve anything neatly, but anticlimactically suspends the narrative development of an extremely complicated person. His wife's grief rings false to us since Siegel has chosen to show her previously as a nag. But we realize at the end that the grief is real, that only a fraction of the marriage was shown us during the film--that people unleash themselves on one another with the unspoken assumption that a future exists in which all problems and feelings can be reconciled...
...Israeli commandos penetrated farther into enemy territory (140 miles) than they had ventured even during the war. Then the force split into three groups. One squad assaulted the bridge at Qena (pop. 40,000), a $5,000,000 span completed only this year. Another attacked the bridge-dam at Nag Hammadi (pop. 20,000), whose lock controls the flow of water for irrigating upper-valley sugarcane fields. The third hit the nearby Nag Hammadi electric power station, one of the four major relay points between Cairo and the Aswan Dam. A short time later, all three units were lifted back...
...some squalid attic dolefully examining a pair of track shoes: To run or not to run? That is the question. In another cartoon, he is portrayed as a fox with a lopsided grin on his face nonchalantly padding up to Dick Nixon, who is seated smugly on a nag surrounded by a pack of dogs...
...when the mood strikes him, and he seems care less of the consequences. When Nikita Khrushchev personally upbraided him for his unconventional poetry, Voznesensky stubbornly refused to recant. When critics attacked him for formal ism, which in Soviet jargon means experimenting with the language, Voznesensky replied in verse: "They nag me about formalism./Formaldehyde: you stink of it and incense." He helped to stir up the Soviet Writers Congress last May by signing a letter boldly calling for an end to Soviet censorship. Last week copies of a Voznesensky letter to Pravda and one of his latest poems reached...
...Kentucky Derby has produced more than its share of surprises, but it has never been a happy hunting ground for long-shot bettors. In 1913, a nag named Donerail galloped home at 91 to 1, and in 1940 Gallahadion ran off with all the roses at 35 to 1. Outside of that, only ten times in 92 years has any horse hit the wire rated at more than 10 to 1. So imagine the astonishment at Churchill Downs last week when the Derby winner turned out to be Proud Clarion, a 30-to-l shot that didn't even...