Word: armoring
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...Weedon and Richard Ward provide a pictorial history of their eye-catching subject, from the primitive wedding-cake carousels of the last century to the heavy-metal speed rides of today. The history of the merry-go-round discloses an intriguing variety of national tastes. Americans preferred animals in armor; the French were fond of cats and bunnies; and the Germans liked galloping pigs. As fascinating as banners portraying the Jolly Fat Lady, the Cardiff Giant and the proverbial Two-Headed Calf were the artists who created these icons of the bizarre. The exemplary Snap Wyatt, a cigar-smoking sign...
...spellbind waiters at a San Francisco restaurant as he concocted his own salad dressing, rescue a stricken bee that had fallen on a patio table and, inevitably, jump up to prepare a bowl of popcorn. Says Worrell: "He is hyper and whimsical. But he wears his humor like armor; underneath, he is serious about his activism and his acting...
...lawyer for the archdiocese (James Mason, who can give to a three-piece suit more menace than was radiated by Darth Vader's armor) suspects that the doctors blundered. On his recommendation, the archbishop offers Frankie's client $210,000. "When they give you the money it means you won," says his old legal mentor Mickey Morrissey (a gallant old wreck superbly played by Jack Warden). But Frankie, without consulting his client, decides to try the case and bring the guilty doctors to punishment...
...designed to replace, but the Army assures us it's "the best tank in the world." That's a dubious claim: the West German Leopard II outperformed the M-1 in competition, but the Army refuses to use a foreign tank. The M-1's much-touted Chobham armor is much more effective than previous armor, but it is so expensive that it's only being put on the front. The M-1's gas turbine engine makes it lightning fast. But such engines require a lot of air, which the M-1 takes in through a defective filter that...
About 20 medieval fighters, some wearing brightly-colored tunies and vinyl attracted much attention around the Quad Sunday afternoon as they battled with swords, spears, polearms, shields, and armor in their first "practice" at Harvard...