Word: 27a
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concept behind seatbelts also bugs me. You're falling to earth from 30,000 feet and you expect a seatbelt to save your life? The only good thing that they do is make it easier for the rescue people to find your body. "Yup, there he is, 27A, sucker had his seatbelt on." If it's going to be your last chance to piss someone off, you might as well spread your body all over the place...
...rogue, and Jack Gwillim manages to be both good-hearted and hopelessly stuffy, just as Colonel Pickering, that confirmed old bachelor, should be. Cecil Beaton's black-and-white costumes will always cause gasps of pleasure, and Oliver Smith's sets will forever define the boundaries of 27A Wimpole Street, where a flower girl was transformed into a lady. Within those walls there is a magic yet. But audiences will have to try a little harder than they did in 1956 to see just how fair the lady really...