Word: nag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months ago, the Stanford faculty senate voted unanimously in favor of requiring the proposed center to operate under "normal academic governance" (meaning that appointments would be approved by Stanford's regular academic committees). Hoover fellows made an acronym of that phrase and turned it into a taunt: "Nag, nag, nag...
...three-act work includes a trio of separate stories about personal relationships that occur at a seashore. The first act takes place at a cottage house in 1925 in Marshfield, the second at a bunker overlooking the invasion of Normandy in 1944, and the third at North Carolina's Nag's Head Beach in 1979. "The play follows the dramatic evolution of the same character of the same character type." Farrell explains, adding that the same actor will play the protagonist in each...
...been stung. The author reports of an unhurried race horse, for instance, that "Sterling Drive broke from the rail, with infinite care, and headed directly for the parking lot, going so wide on the first turn that several fans groaned." The deftness and dryness here, an infinitely careful nag, indeed, is worthy of Red Smith...
...long enough to give an entertaining lecture on politics, language, sex or music. (Henry much prefers the Supremes and Herman's Hermits to "this female vocalist person .. . called Callas in a sort of foreign musical with no dancing.") Henry could be an intellectual popinjay or, worse, a nag. But through the frail magnificence of Roger Rees, last seen heading the R.S.C.'s Nicholas Nickleby, Henry becomes compassionate, troubled, ardent-the best of the rest of us, and the real thing...
...fighting that men can become friends), the whole picture begins to come apart. The brawny Nolte looks as if he could blow the willowy Murphy away with one punch. But the brawl ends in an obviously fixed draw, and a suspicion that everything else is equally rigged begins to nag. The uncaring mind begins to wander questioningly toward many a dubious plot point. Where did the bad guys get hold of a city bus for a getaway? And what good do they think the clumsy thing is going to do them anyway? There can be no doubts on one matter...