Word: clad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rick Wakeman. Not counting the revolving crystal sphere which shed light upon the audience, Yes's only form of physical embellishment was a mysterious figure clad in a magician's cape and surrounded by such an entourage of keyboards that he would have been practically obfuscated if not for his gleaming locks which actually rivaled the crystal ball in brilliance. Rick Wakeman has since left Yes and his career as a solo artist is blossoming. Saturday night he will perform a musical version of Jules Verne's science fictionclassic, Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Neither man power...
...close-up of a Flemish tapestry: A paratrooper lands on a partridge and carries the dead bird with him: half talisman, half future meal. A British colonel calls his men to him with a copper hunting horn. Bagpipes play Blue Bonnets. The inmates of a bombed mental institution, clad in white robes, float through the surrounding woods like ghosts...
Early one recent morning, two groups of women clad in nightgowns could be glimpsed on New York television madly wheeling two brass bedsteads up and down a sun-drenched parking lot, squealing and squawking, while a well-dressed humanoid alternately shouted encouragement and insults from the sidelines...
Next morning, early-bird celebrity-watchers were accorded an unusual sight: the President of the United States, clad only in a pair of baby blue summer pajamas, opening his door to look for his copy of the Washington Post (it arrived late and was passed into the Ford home by a Secret Service man). Seemingly unchanged by the week's events, he chatted with neighbors and reporters, and signed autographs. When would he move into the White House? "I didn't ask yesterday," he replied. "I felt it would not be very appropriate...
When David Viscount Linley, 12, and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 10, accompanied their mother Princess Margaret on a visit to the Royal Navy at Portland Naval Base, Britain's Senior Service put on a good show. There was a helicopter flypast, and a fire drill with asbestos-clad sailors putting out a fire. David got an extra treat. He took the wheel of one of the navy's high-powered training boats, then joined the Royal Marines in an assault on a nearby beach. Later he clapped a sailor hat on his head and was heard to pronounce...