Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting there today. For Americans now even hold strong notions about the cut of a Chief Executive's clothes. Harry Truman incensed many button-down traditionalists by hacking around his Key West vacation retreat in criminally garish sports shirts. The spectacle of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the flamboyant cape and floppy hats that he loved to flaunt raised the blood pressure of old-school Republicans...
That one exception is David Michael Berti as Sir Eglamour, the bit part knight who helps Silvia escape in Act V. He leaps on stage wearing silver boots, a white cape, silver leggings and a white tunic with a heraldic device on the front. Shazzam! It's Disco Superman! The house howled at every word. Berti played it to the hilt, flourishing his cape and pouncing about the stage like Batman, delivering his lines with Marvel Comics bravado. As comedy this bogus touch was great, but as Shakespeare it seemed rather strained and out of sorts with the prevailing traditionalism...
...steel's airstream in flight. Actually Texas Senator John Tower, 53, never did get airborne, but otherwise the conservative Republican performed nobly in a Superman spoof mounted in Dallas by a drinking club of politicians and newsmen. "I was born to play Superman," acknowledged Tower, flipping his cape for dramatic emphasis...
...organizers will present information about Cape Verde and the purposes of the fast tonight in the Lamont Library forum room, Montiero said...
University Food Services will give 95 cents for each fasting student to Tchuba, an American organization devoted to helping the African coastal archipelago of Cape Verde, a food services spokesman said yesterday...