Word: raggedness
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On a recent afternoon at Kao-hsiung's municipal graveyard, six or seven separate processions?each towing a musical band hired from one of the city's funeral companies?are vying for space at the crematorium. The musicians occasionally squeak out a desultory tune, unrecognizable over the noise from the...
Hollister calls it his most ambitious work, a demanding piece to play. And he complains that the only public performance of the piece--by the New Orleans Symphony--was "ragged" and not "terribly well rehearsed."
One night this girl's terror became too much. She sat alone in a bathroom, dark except for the blue-white light of the streetlamp outside spilling across her hands, her wrists, the small square of the razor blade as it moved closer to her soft web of veins. She...
At home, the Administration seemed ready to celebrate a job well done. Skeptics?even Democrats?gave Bush good grades on his first foreign policy test. After the ragged, overly brusque beginning, he had?personally, aides insisted?orchestrated the kind of cool, calm diplomacy that brings results. He eschewed Clinton-style...
The momentum continued to shift to Brown when a dogfight at No. 4 singles between Barker and Drake ended with a 7-5, 6-3 win for Brown. Both players had run each other ragged and stayed focused in the swirling winds.