Word: nag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desire for a shrewd horse trader. So, as Johnson and Nixon begat Carter, now Carter could just conceivably beget John Connaly, if the horse-trading rancher can satisfy skeptical Americans that his steed is white and he will never come home with a spavined and one-eyed nag...
Rumor has it Martha had to nag at George to get him to sit for the painting; she must have angered Stuart because he made Martha's nose awfully big and didn't even stick around to finish the portraits. Even so, the paintings are nice and all, but Gilbert Stuart, the artist (who is very famous) isn't even from Boston (he was born in Rhode Island, poor devil) and George came to Boston with his army only a couple of times. So does Boston really have a claim...
...surreal humor. Buried Child, now at off-Broadway's Theater de Lys, concerns itself with a zany Illinois farm family. Dodge (Richard Hamilton), the grandfather, is a prickly relic whose security blanket is the whisky bottle under it. His wife Halie (Jacqueline Brookes) is the voice of the nag incarnate. The eldest son Tilden (Tom Noonan) is laconic, even for a neo-Neanderthal. For him, the barren fields yield armfuls of corn and carrots, which are duly shucked, sliced and nibbled onstage...
...tried to nag West Germany into pumping up its economy to reduce the trade surpluses that are prompting conversion of dollars into deutsche marks. The West Germans, fearing inflation, resisted so sternly that the best the U.S. has managed is an agreement under which Washington and Bonn will stop calling each other names in public...
...glimpsed in the strange fact that the vanner drives long distances to destinations at which the main activity is a celebration of the vehicles that have made the journey. Such intriguing realities must be taken into account by any respectable theory of the nomading crowd. And they do nag up some interesting possibilities...