Word: clad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evening shadows, amid pilgrims' candles and prayers, dressed in clerical garb and brandishing a 16-in. bayonet. Just as Pope John Paul II mounted the steps of the Basilica of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, carrying his own candle toward an altar outside the shrine, the black-clad figure lunged toward him. An alert Portuguese security guard swiftly wrestled the attacker into custody, but not before the man had come within a scant 3 ft. of John Paul. The Pope, indeed, was jostled as other security men pounced on the assailant, but frowning slightly in concern, the Pontiff...
...good guy is a dog, Max's gray-eyed mutt companion, fearless and faithful. Another one literally erupts out of the earth. This is Gyro Captain (Bruce Spence), a deranged parody of the World War I aerial ace: scarecrow skinny, gaily clad, sporting a James Coburn smile with advanced caries. This would-be gallant is given to abrupt whinnies and wistful meditations on the good old days: "Remember lingerie?" The refiners are led by Pappagallo (Mike Preston), who carries the weight of his predicament with swaggering dignity, and Feral Kid (Emil Minty), an eight-year-old who growls...
...ANOTHER CHANNEL, a blue cross rises against a carefully arranged background of metal streaks meant to represent light. Three adorable blond children clad in Lacoste shirts stand in front of it. The program is ending, and after a short pitch for contributions, it is back to the Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Tournament...
Taylor has always tested limits. Older pieces (going back as far as 1956) included in the current program confirm the breadth of his skill. Le Sucre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) (1980) pits a Chicago-style gangster and his moll against gray-clad ciphers in a workers' state, concluding in a massacre. Private Domain (1969) exposes a beach full of muscle builders, sexual athletes and Esther Williams-style chorus lines. Orbs (1966) harks back to the wedding scene in Martha Graham's landmark Appalachian Spring. Here, however, the screwball marriage takes place in "Terrestrial Autumn," where a drunk polkas...
...millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day... I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished...