Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after a local second-grader was raped. The heart of the CAP program, and others that have followed or paralleled it, is a series of playlets | designed so that children and leaders can handle the roles and then talk out the tricky nuances of abuse. For the youngest children, rag dolls are used as stand-ins to show the body areas that are strictly private...
SOME OF THE better writing, though, lies in the "texts" themselves. The parodies of Helen Gurley Brown and of Jack Kerouac (in the form of Camille Cassidy Cassady, who writes On the Rag) are particularly funny, because the humor is aimed more at the society that fostered Cosmopolitan and the Beat generation than at specific female stereotypes...
...this business" should be able to retain the right to some privacy and still make their careers in film. That celebrities may, as some courts have characterized it, invite speculation into their private lives does not endow every fan to exchange their ticket stub and the price of some rag for a detailed account of someone's private life...
...begins the artistic trajectory of surge, transcendence, decline and early death. Mozart takes a lower-class wife (Elizabeth Berridge, with the puffy, smooth face and black button eyes of a rag doll left in grandma's attic), but befuddles her with his excesses at work and play. He fights with his possessive father (Roy Dotrice) and with the arbiters of art in Joseph's court. He is a slave to fashion and passion. His genius continues to consume him, like a virus he is unable or unwilling to shake; at the first performance of The Magic Flute...
Though sales of new convertibles have not lived up to optimistic projections, they remain popular. Chrysler has sold 11,867 LeBaron and Dodge 600 convertibles this year, and Ford has moved 8,739 topless Mustangs. Jim Roberto, sales manager of Denver's Skyline Dodge, says he sells rag-tops as fast as he receives them. This fall another convertible will debut: a canvas-top version of the American Motors sub-compact Renault Alliance...