Word: wagging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britain's better pageants, the Queen spoke from a golden throne in the gilded House of Lords, surrounded by such royal functionaries as her Gold Stick in Waiting and the Rouge Dragon Pursuivant. So many ermined peers and bejeweled peeresses were present that a journalistic wag observed there was a "tiara boom today...
...Anglican Church was once so upper-crusty English that an 18th century wag called it "the Tory Party at prayer." That was before the British Empire carried Anglicanism into the colonial hinterlands, where it sank indigenous roots and waxed while the Empire waned. Today Anglicanism has become a loose "communion" with 65 million adherents belonging to autonomous churches in 165 nations scattered from Canada to Zambia. To be sure, there are still many tea-sipping High Church bishops, but there are as well a few black ones with more than a passing interest in Marxism. And though the "mother" Church...
...Bike Nuts, who pedal $1,000 coinage machines, complete a 70-mile leg in five hours or less and, as one wag noted, "go so fast that no one ever sees them, and they see nothing of the scenery...
...ardor, his passion, his kindness, his wit, the juices of his undammed Life Force flow through Donnelly's performance. Donnelly captures the nuances of the aging process, the time when the patriarchal beard seems to wag the man. Yet throughout, the actor maintains a conversational urbanity that makes the show a fit companion for two of Shaw's pet abominations, brandy and cigars...
...smoothed by relaxation, as with the sumptuous lesbian couple in Sleep, 1866. Or it could be pinched and chapped, like the mourners' faces in A Burial at Ornans, 1850. The nude figure in The Bathers, 1853, that pink wardrobe waddling into the forest, was a scandal; one wag dubbed it "a 45-year-old woman at the moment of washing herself for the first time in her life, in the hope of assuaging her rash." But we now see in the figure's mounds, dimples and excited brush marks one of the most majestic nudes since Rubens...