Word: raggedness
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The Belgian-born nun, whose very name bespeaks Christmas, is the only missionary among the 10,000 garbage pickers of the Egyptian capital. They are untouchables who live in what amounts to perpetual serfdom, bequeathing their trade and squalor to succeeding generations. The garbage pickers stay alive by sorting through...
"Things were pretty even in the first half." Scalise said "We both played pretty ragged. But we opened or up a lot in the second but just couldn't manage to get the ball on the goal."
Overall, though, the good songs win out, and all of the music is well-played under the direction of Laurence Sobel. The original Broadway production was staged in Bob Fosse's usual extravagant style, but the production here remains wisely small-scaled After a rather ragged opening, Betsy King's...
The sarcasm stops when the insurance man learns of a mysterious cult (the "Names" of the title). The ritual murders committed by these ragged, nomadic zealots are as easy as ABC. Their formula, revealed by Owen Brademas, an aged American anthropologist, is based on polyglot alphabets twisted into a system...
Still, slang has deep resources. The French resist barbaric intrusions into the language of Voltaire and Descartes. But American English has traditionally welcomed any bright word that sailed in, no matter how ragged it may have looked on arrival. That Whitmanesque hospitality has given America the richest slang in the...