Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither prude nor Puritan, Hogarth sought to lay bare the foibles of his England. Yet he was no revolutionary; he wore the scarlet coat of a gentleman, and respected the Crown. He married the daughter of the man who painted murals in St. Paul's, eventually succeeded him as Serjeant-Painter to Kings George II and III. He began life as an apprentice silversmith, wound up with a country house and six servants...
...Astrakhan Coat by Pauline Macaulay. No Broadway season would be complete without someone suggesting that what the theater really needs is a good new mystery thriller. Perhaps it does, but The Astrakhan Coat is not very good, only superficially new, and never particularly thrilling. Even avid whodunit fans must be a trifle bored by corpses in trunks, corpses that drop out of closets, and the confetti-like strewing of misleading clues. Coat also contains the customary complement of victims whose impenetrable innocence prevents them from knowing when or how to withdraw from transparently treacherous situations...
...Coat hangs on a double frame-up. A dumb penguin of a waiter (Roddy Mc-Dowall), who wants to cloak the cipher of his existence with something or other, answers an advertisement for an astra khan coat. The man selling the coat is a criminal dandy (Brian Bedford) of homosexual bent who tyrannizes over his two colleagues, a bizarre, dress-alike brother and sister known as The Heavenly Twins. Diabolic purists who love crime for crime's sake, the three want a fall guy to take the rap on a diamond heist. When the circumstantial evidence is finally planted...
...said, "then I'll marry him." But no man ever did. In 1931, while sitting onstage during a performance of Jongleur de Notre-Dame in Chicago, she decided that "I have given enough," went to her dressing room after the last curtain call, put on her coat and never returned...
Anthony Perkins and Richard Benjamin, the boys involved, write and edit a magazine of strenuous anti-U.S. protest but no visible proceeds called Fallout. The boys are intelligent fools and natural allies. Editor Perkins has the wiry agony of a tortured coat hanger. Benjamin, the writing half of the team, casts the glowless beam of an abandoned lighthouse...