Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schroeder (Forbes James Candlish) is another member whose gestures along could make his part. Candlish memorized the finger movements for his scenes of musical virtuosity, and backed by the actual music of the show's combo, he blithely wraps himself in a cloak of Beethoven or Socrates to ward off Lucy's (Jackie Levy's) stubborn attacks. It's hard not to wince at the thought of what little Lucy will be like when she grows up. The strident beginnings of a first-class shrew increase her "crabbiness" ("it's undemocratic if I can't be Queen") to a screeching...
...additional reports from a score of Sunday Times correspondents from La Paz to Seoul. "At the stage where other papers are ready to publish, we're just beginning to dig," explains "Insight" Editor Barry. In the Philby story, for example, they did not rest their case after the cloak-and-dagger investigation was ended. They went on to examine Kim Philby's background and early life, and in so doing added the dimension of "insight" that characterizes the team's reporting at its best...
...Cloak-and-Dagger. Why the switch? Ever since the 1911 breakup of the Standard Oil trust, legal restrictions have barred any firm from using the name Standard nationally-or even the name Esso (which comes from S.O.). Jersey Standard had to operate Esso stations in the East, Humble stations in Ohio, and Enco stations elsewhere. But this was no way to build strong national-brand consciousness. In their search for a new name, Esso executives worked in cloak-and-dagger secrecy. To ensure security, they typed their own letters and memos. The project even had a code name: Operation Nugget...
...theater in Bergen. His first four plays flopped, and as a director he was a washout. Too shy to tell his actors what to do, he sat in the back of the theater tugging at his beard or hurried away from confrontation muffled up in a huge romantic cloak that made him look like Mickey Rooney playing Goethe...
...code name is given each caller, and an elaborate payoff system involving a clandestine rendezvous is used to reward the anonymous informant. The cloak-and-dagger atmosphere is apparently part of the program's lure. Said the program head: "People are interested in that type of thing-code names, secret drops. There's a little...