Word: popinjay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vital to that cause's success. The musketeers (Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay), for example, never stop for a moment to observe - as Lester does - that the French king (Jean Pierre Cassel) for whom they endlessly risk life and limb is a vain and idle popinjay. Their opponents, the servants of Cardinal Richelieu, never seem to notice that their man (deftly played by Charlton Heston) does not seem to be scheming for any useful purpose: his nature simply demands that he spend a certain number of hours each day weaving complicated plots...
...hundred years ago, "Jemmy" Rivington, a popinjay Tory editor whose anti-liberal scallawaggery would have delighted Spiro Agnew or Richard Nixon, founded "Rivington's New-York Gazetteer...