Word: ragging
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...play's more overt symbolic actions silly. Jake opens a box of his father's ashes and blows. An American flag somehow finds itself draped like a blanket around Jake's shoulder's and later stuffed like a bridle into his mouth or tied like an old rag around Mike's rifle barrel. But these tend to be balanced by moments in which the play takes itself less seriously, as when Lorraine says of Beth and Jake, "A woman who lives with a man like that deserves to be killed," or when Baylor rhapsodizes, "Hunting is no hobby...
...blue rag the old man limps...
...stitches. It snapped and tore at an unemployed man as he watched the July 4 fireworks in Rochester; last week he died from his multiple injuries, including a 15-in. wound from calf to thigh. And in Atlanta, Houston and Ramsay, Mich., it has seized small children like rag dolls and mauled them to death in a frenzy of bloodletting...
...course, rag or not, the Beirut paper went public with truthful information on the episode, something the President's Administration cannot boast having done. The current Senate hearings are of only a limited, investigatory scope, and the full repercussions of the Administration's dealings with the Nicaraguan contras and Iranian Shi'ites will not be known until Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh begins handing down indictments. What is clear is that the conclusions of the Tower Commission were wrong. The fault lie not with the President's "management-style" but with the President himself. Ollie North and his band of private...
...eyes. And what really gets the President's goat--"what is driving me up the walls," as he told Time Magazine in a remarkable interview at the end of November--"is that this [the Iran-contra affair] wasn't a failure until the press got a tip from that rag in Beirut and began to play...