Word: broadsword
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When the eagle scout was summoned as a witness in an arbitration hearing last week, at least one union leader was faintly defensive. Richard Ries, business manager for Division 757 of the Amalgamated Transit Union and a former eagle scout, allowed that "it sounds like we're taking a broadsword to the scouts." But sometimes, he insisted, good deeds can lead to bad consequences...
...British task force has one weapon that would probably have downed the Exocet. The British-built Seawolf, a 6½-ft.-long missile, is capable of intercepting a 4½-in. shell. It might have stopped the Exocet, but within the task force, only the frigates Broadsword and Brilliant are armed with the Seawolf. Instead, the Sheffield carried the Sea Dart, a reliable but older missile, that, so far as is known, was never fired...
...Pirate King's celebrated solo ("...and it is, it is a glorious thing to be a pirate king!"), O'Neill deals out another wild-card. The king sings his first two choruses gesturing nobly with his broadsword, hoisting it into the air, as pirate kings always...
...last chorus, a pirate sidekick appears with a small bird-cage, which the king solemnly takes up and proceeds to give the broadsword treatment. To the chorus's strains of "hurrah for the pirate king," the song concludes with the king in an epic pose, with his new weapon, holding it above his head in an outstretched arm, completely oblivious to the fact that it is not Excalibur. It is an inspired and unprecedented touch that instantly reveals the winsome befuddlement of a buccanneer who refuses to plunder orphans and yields at once when Queen Victoria's name is involved...
...good effort goes for naught, however, because of Richard McElvain's one-dimensional Macbeth. This is a pouty shlep of a thane--Felix Unger with broadsword. Again, it works fine in Act Five, when his "life's but a walking shadow," but we are bored mercilessly beforehand. How this guy gets to be king is certainly beyond comprehension. If he has vaulting ambition, then Ronald Reagan has naturally black hair...