Word: clad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film's conceit is promising at the outset. The highly effective opening scenes show a dove like flock of young choristers running out from under the dripping Gothic gargoyles of a London church. Among them we find the darkly clad figure of a sullen young man in his early 20s (Sting). This stranger begins deliberately accosting passerby on the rainy street with an "accidental" jostle and a subsequent "Why, you're the last person I expected to see!" Someone finally falls for this deception--Thomas E. Bates(Denholm Eihott) a harried middle-aged writer of mass-produced inspirational verse...
...half-way between the stage and the real audience--because of the theatre's seating arrangement we don't realize that the man assiduously reading his program and taking notes of the set before the play begins is actually part of the cast. Only with the arrival of Birdboot, clad in yellow, green and plaid and munching on chocolates, does the audience get its first hint that something unusual is afoot. The pair discusses Higgs, the first-string, and launches us into a fast-paced, clever hour-and-a-half's entertainment which only occasionally verges on the flip...
...with you." An otherwise wonderful "High Flying Adored" includes this unusual rhyme; "I'm their savior. That's a what they call me/ So Lauren Bacall me." Fortunately, though, the last lyrics are overshadowed by stage action as Evita rushes back and forth, gradually transforming herself from a slip-clad frump to a Dior stunner...
...China's idea of sovereignty includes a formula giving the People's Republic some measure of political control over the colony. In a shrill attack late last week, Xinhua, China's official news agency, declared that "unequal treaties forced upon the Chinese people provide an iron clad proof of British imperialism's plunder of Chinese territory. It is a sacred mission," the report added, "of the Chinese government and people to claim sovereignty over Hong Kong." But however mild, such control would mean an end to Hong Kong's special nature. "The Chinese have...
...slightest squishing noise as he makes his way to his club for a few hands of whist, for talk of the Malaya network and of what new moles have been rooted out of it. At the door, he is greeted by the doorman, a fine, silver-haired chap clad in a waistcoat which prominently displays his regimental...