Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Herald has become one of the nation's easiest newspapers to rag on. A year ago, it switched to tabloid format, and it has now resolutely plunked down all its chips on violent crimes and eye-catching scandal. Today, Boston residents who want their news served up with an eye to long-term significance, not short-term sensation, know they are down to one choice And for them, the morning newsstand routine of reaching for the Globe now also includes time out to cluck at the Herald...
Eliot had his own jazzy barroom tempos. All is not gloom in The Waste Land, where the line "O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag" occurs. As the droll parade of people-cats pads by in Cats, it forms an anthropomorphical rag. Terrence V. Mann makes Rum Turn Tugger a prototype for an arrogant rock star. As Skimbleshanks, Reed Jones is endearingly batty about trains. An impromptu choo-choo is assembled on the spot out of large wheels, a lampshade and a teapot, which delights him and the audience equally...
...last resort, after all other University rooms are booked. This fall, inordinate numbers of students have classes there: portions of the building were subdivided and refurbished to ease the classroom shortage that renovations in Sever Hall brought on. The classes relocated, though, are still the usual Vanserg rag-bag of offerings from all corners of the Faculty...
...president is at once most likely to rely on and relax with. The two men work down the hall from each other on the first floor of Mass Hall, and Steiner has constant access to the president. He is also the unofficial captain of Bok's Jocks, a rag-tag team of Mass Hall softballers...
...novel has a hero, it is Nicholas Reverey, an honorable, fortyish art dealer who has an eye as acute as the late David Carritt's. The love interest is provided by Jill Newman, who manages to churn out gossip for a rag called That Woman! as well as an authoritative column for a financial weekly. As in his first novel, Green Monday, Thomas has assembled a picaresque cast of cutthroats, poseurs, cultural pimps and likable rascals. But the author's true love is for art, the canvases, the places and the people, of which he writes at times...