Word: cowl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beauty: coarse sand beaches curve seamlessly toward the horizon; delicate, silk-draped women smile alluringly. But upon landing at an eerily empty Tan Son Nhut airport, there is no escaping the stark reminders of conflicts past: the olive-drab Chinook helicopters, C-130s and C-47s lie cheek by cowl off the tarmac. This is no Club Med. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, a recent and tentative entrant in the lucrative global sweepstakes known as the tourist industry...
...years after Batman's retirement, and the world has gone to hell without him. Bruce Wayne, nearing 50, is bored and angry; he drinks, he curses, he gets grayer. The cowl was hung up for good when Robin came to some unspecified violent end in the service of his mentor. But the city is under seige by the brutal gang called the "Mutants," who "do murders" for kicks, and Commisioner Gordon, four weeks from 70, is being forced into retirement by petty bureauacrats...
There is only so much an excrimefighter can take. The utility belt clips in place, the cowl covers the gray hair: the Dark Knight Returns, striking terror into the hearts of--everyone...
...device of shamming insanity has a long tradition going back at least as far as Oceanus' advice to Aeschylus' Prometheus: "To simulate madness is the secret of the wise," Walken's "antic disposition" is correctly a disguise. He appears barefoot, wearing a muddied monk's gown with cowl. He takes things pretty fat, however, In the Nunnery Scene, where he not only berates Ophelia but even knocks her down and slaps her. Later he shinnies up a pole to give a speech...