Word: armored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most part, the performers are not stars, and the attraction that draws some 450,000 theatergoers a year -- about 45% of them from the U.S. -- is the shows themselves. The staging can be as traditional as a Richard III in doublets and armor or as giddily updated as The Taming of the Shrew transported to 1950s Italy. Shakespeare, which makes up at least half the schedule, can be complemented by the sober heft of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral or spritzed with My Fair Lady in an ingeniously extravagant production that bejewels the stage with chandeliers, dinner jackets...
...results so far have been mixed. The Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies hold a 2-to-1 advantage over the U.S. and NATO in numbers of tanks, for example. Yet Moscow's armored force includes large numbers of the undersized and underpowered T-55 and T-62 models. The new T-80 travels at a sluggish 40 m.p.h., but is equipped with a lethal 125-mm cannon and laser-guided fire control. One big advance is shields of "reactive" armor that explode on contact to deflect projectiles fired by all but the newest NATO tanks...
...Bugs Bunny classics as Falling Hare and Rabbit Seasoning -- have the limber wit of the cartoons that inspired them. Nor do the human actors add much. Hoskins, in a role for which Eddie Murphy and Bill Murray were considered, lacks their effortless star quality. He's more like an armor-plated Yosemite Sam, gruff and explodable. Only Christopher Lloyd, as the evil Judge Doom with a scheme even more nefarious than the one hatched by the burghers of Chinatown, easily straddles the film's two worlds...
When my mother came across a photocopy of myapplication with this little bit of dementia onit, she was sure my chances of getting in haddisappeared. But Harvard took me anyway. Thesecond crack in my application armor was revealedonly after I was accepted, so no one could do muchabout it. My parents were aware of this one,though, because they let it slip...
...also has multiple amusing moments, usually when Tad Allagash is in tow. In one particularly funny scene, the pair release a vicious ferret in the office of Jamie's former boss while the fiction editor who has rejected his stories falls flat-on-his-face drunk before an armor ornament. And all of Jamie's forays into the Manhattan night are funny in their pathetic way, and this is precisely the sort of humor that...