Word: brassbound
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...yellowish, brassbound trunk not only moved-it talked. From its depths came kicks, wriggles, and a sepulchral voice pleading "Aiutatemi! Salvatemi!" (Help me! Save me!). Porter Mario Colelli, who was loading freight into the rear baggage compartment of United Arab Airlines flight 784 to Cairo, recalls, "It was good Italian, real Italian Italian. Suddenly, I thought, 'My God, this is an Italian, and these Arabs are kidnaping him-some political fellow or something. Who knows what they'll do to him down there in Cairo...
...lost gold and silver has been fished from the ocean bottom off Florida's east coast. With every reported haul, more and more Sunday divers take to the water, propelled by bubble-bright dreams of gleaming doubloons and pieces of eight, of jeweled swords and brassbound chests of bullion nestled in the coral...
Playboy Packs. She came onstage trembling, spoke in a whisper, and apologized that in her 19 years she had never used a microphone or appeared before a crowd. Facing the wigged high judges of Britain had failed to dent her brassbound confidence, but facing this crowd was something else. "Because my name is Mandy Rice-Davies," she had told the avid reporters a few hours earlier, "I have to start at the top. It's twice as hard...
...three or four times, Caesar and Cleopatra (written in 1899) found him first hitting his major stride; consequently it is his first really great play. It is the middle one of three related "Plays for Puritans," as Shaw called them--flanked by The Devil's Disciple and Captain Brassbound's Conversion, both considerably inferior...
...local comic geniuses, David Cole and Kenneth Tigar, mug their way through minor roles. Cole is the comic Cockney--very much so; and Tigar's beatific moronic grin makes him much the most memorable of Captain Brassbound's crew. [Not that the rest are inadequate: one of the others is quite first rate, although I inadvertently ignored him first time round. I refer, of course, to Donald Lyons, who gives us an again Bright Young Thing going to seed at just the proper rate of speed. The Captain himself, alas, is not so memorable. Terrence Currier has taken over...