Word: caging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prince played golf with the dashing Prince of Wales and, Hirohito later recalled, "first experienced freedom" after having been raised "like a bird in a cage." Upon his return, he permanently adopted the Western style of dressing, eating and sleeping. Even now the Emperor treasures his first purchase, a 1921 Paris Metro ticket...
...Cage Aux Folles...
...Many Hollywood studios are bidding for Torch Song Trilogy, which is a funny, sad, always touching story about homosexuals. Producers in more than half a dozen foreign countries have purchased the rights. Fierstein left the show last week to finish work in Boston on a musical version of La Cage aux Folles, for which he has written the book and which is scheduled to open on Broadway in August. Suddenly he is in demand. One producer even wants him to be the voice of the MX missile in a film comedy, which is not all that bad an idea...
...some sort of comment on the monarchy, or if the excerpts of serious analysis are intended to be heeded, then Scola has produced a muddled failure. The film's frivolity, if intended as a counterbalance--a light-hearted portrayal of chaos--proves nothing of the kind, with the La-Cage-aux-Folles-type fairy-coachmen who are tedious rather than funny. The fresh moments are all to far in between in this frankly boring and undistinguished film; only ardent Mastroianni enthusiasts or connoisseurs of 1790s French fashion will come away from La Nuit de Varennes satisfied...
Mort Ciment, 59, was what Friedman would call a typical Type A. Excitable to begin with, he worked as a Los Angeles commodities trader, a job he likens to "being in a mad cage." When the market was really moving, he says, "there was terrible tension. You'd leave to go to the bathroom, come back and find the position horribly changed." When he got home, he admits, "my nerves were singing, and I'd take it out on the nearest person...