Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pygmalion in which a cheerily crooked Cockney finds himself heir to an earldom and a fortune if he can learn to behave like a swell -- is comic but farfetched. Yet the gaudy $4 million production has an unabashed desire to please, touches of sprightly invention (a mounted suit of armor abruptly walks offstage; ancestor portraits come alive and tap-dance) and a hugely likable cast, led by Robert Lindsay as the newfound aristocrat and Maryann Plunkett as the plucky working-class girl who means more to him than ermine and marbled halls. The earl-to-be spurns his title...
...California to retire but instead opened a seafood restaurant in Orange, compares the mood to "gold-rush fever." Says Stockbroker Trevor Spruston: "The atmosphere challenges everyone's drive." It also encourages second starts, says Alan Rypinski. He made one fortune producing a protective coating for vinyl and rubber called Armor All, stumbled financially with an auto boutique and a fast-food spaghetti business, and is now trying to pile up another bundle selling a product that removes wrinkles from fabric. Says Rypinski: "It's pretty easy to recover. There's so much going...
...team painstakingly swept 120,000 linear miles of ocean with magnetometers, devices that detect irregularities in the earth's magnetic field--anomalies caused by, among other things, iron cannons, armor or anchors. They used side-scan and sub-bottom sonar and even commissioned an aerial survey, but the search did not yield a verifiable Atocha remnant. Says Fay Feild, an engineer and consultant to Treasure Salvors, who designed a special magnetometer for Fisher: "With a magnetometer, even in a limited area, only one in 100 'hits' has anything to do with a wreck. With a side- scanner...
...Alien and its new sequel, Weaver has been able to commandeer center screen with a character she larkishly calls "Rambolina." Beneath the armor, though, she has found exotic soulmates: "I secretly structured myself to play Ripley like Henry V and like the women warriors of classic Chinese literature." Aliens was no take-the-money-and-run proposition (though she was paid $1 million, about 30 times her salary for the 1979 original). As Cameron remarks, "She's intensely prepared. Her copy of the script was marked with 17 different colors of ink. The margin notes were incredible...
Other estimates go much higher: 4 million lbs. per year to start and vastly more than that if, for example, satellites were armored and made maneuverable to protect them against Soviet attack. SDI officials, says John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists, "are looking at increasing their annual to-orbit weight by a factor of ten to 50 times, and that assumes survivability apart from armor. If they go to armor, the numbers quickly become bizarre as opposed to just daunting...