Word: fluff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MORGAN, MORGAN, Morgan, Morgan, You never even had a chance to be the fairest child in the land. You got your reputation right from the start by flitting around as the raciest, most hot-blooded flamingo ever to fluff its plumage-of which years in some of the best-on network television. Why, Reverend Jerry still hasn't stopped trembling from the last time he saw your high-calls-and low cuts. But, while popping the reverend's cork was fun, it wasn't enough. On the little screen, you're only supposed to suggest the risque--show a little...
...stage is simple, open, bright-unusual for the generally gloomy Loeb. The lighting is all done in bright pastels, the costumes a glorious grab-bag of chiffon and satin that fluff and swirl with every movement. There's little hint given of time or place; the backdrop consists of neutral sheets of off-white canvas, allowing the colorful figures to stand even more distinctly. No curtain cuts off the view. Instead, a soaring contraption of cheesecloth strips covers without concealing. What minimal scenery the stage holds gradually disappears, leaving the set empty for the final two farces, free...
...songs by George Harrison," there is but one, a piece of fluff during the end titles; the "stars" only pop in for cameos; and the connection with Python is not as direct as the trailer and poster promise. If you go to see clever punning, naughty bits, and no-holds-barred tomfoolery, you will leave feeling vaguely amused but mostly cheated. Time Bandits must be approached, of at all, from the unjaded perspective of an eleven-year-old--the perspective the plot hinges...
...feet tall) to the movie's only loser, an ultimately weak and impotent "non-man." This question of what is and is not a man, posed repeatedly throughout the movie by him and a variety of minor characters unifies the storyline and raises it above the level of simple fluff...
...modest Honda Civic in which he drove himself last year is seldom seen these days. Instead, he races around Monrovia in a chauffeured black Mercedes-Benz limousine flanked by motorcycle police with wailing sirens. A hairdresser comes to his suite in the Israeli-built Executive Mansion each morning to fluff up his luxuriant Afro. As one Liberian official puts it: "He is getting comfortable as the head of state...