Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That one exception is David Michael Berti as Sir Eglamour, the bit part knight who helps Silvia escape in Act V. He leaps on stage wearing silver boots, a white cape, silver leggings and a white tunic with a heraldic device on the front. Shazzam! It's Disco Superman! The house howled at every word. Berti played it to the hilt, flourishing his cape and pouncing about the stage like Batman, delivering his lines with Marvel Comics bravado. As comedy this bogus touch was great, but as Shakespeare it seemed rather strained and out of sorts with the prevailing traditionalism...
Pugliese, known within SCA circles as the knight Sir Patri Du Chat Gris, said, "Some people join SCA as an escape. For others, it's a way of coming into contact with other people who share an interest in the Middle Ages...
...biggest takeover bids in history, McGraw hired Morgan Stanley & Co., the old-line investment banking firm that is expert in defending takeover targets or at least in forcing the bidder to raise the price. There were hints too that McGraw is shopping around for a "white knight," a buyer more to his taste. Not totally convincingly, American Broadcasting Co. denied reports that it had made an offer for McGraw-Hill...
...motto on Milo Smith's office wall reads: "She who waits for the knight in shining armor must clean up after his horse." Widowed nine years ago at 47, she went back to college "to get another piece of paper." At 50, she was told she was unemployable. "They said I should go to the welfare office, that my new degree was worthless because of lack of recent work experience...
This is a tale of Old Boy meets Old Girl, but does Old Boy lose Old Girl again? Cecil (Harrison) is an English novelist and knight who lives in autumnal bachelor ease at his country house with the aid of a loyal valet, Hawkins (George Rose), who is not above discreetly reproving his master or sampling his port. Into this Eve-less Eden strolls the recently widowed Evelyn (Colbert). It's not the first time. Fifty years before, the same majestic tree that spans the garden had seemed the arbor of true love to Evelyn and Cecil...