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...unified 100 years ago. For most of the week, towering barricades of tree trunks, paving stones and junk sealed the city off from the outside world while nearly 5,000 armed police and carabinieri laid siege to it. At one point, two columns of cops in full riot regalia, spearheaded by bulldozers and a construction crane, charged into a district that had styled itself an independent "republic"; they were hurled back by a hail of bricks, bottles and Molotov cocktails...
...Shaw planned. Ritchard, however, has decided to offer us an enticing appetizer. We hear from one direction a B-flat fanfare for solo trumpet-rather lonely and Coplan-desque in effect-answered from elsewhere by woodwinds. Then, accompanied by some drummers. Ritchard in full general's regalia strides in and delivers a short prologue extracted from Shaw's lengthy opening stage direction. There is no objection to this, for Shaw was characteristically unable to keep from putting some of his best work-often quite irrelevant-into his prefaces, stage directions, and notes...
Several generations of Hollywood actors have made their living wearing U.S. military uniforms in war movies. Even when not entertaining in Viet Nam, Martha Raye likes to don the jaunty regalia of the Green Berets. But antiwar demonstrators have also used Army clothing-in protest plays...
...standing 5 ft. 4 in., Tri cuts a figure that is every bit as dashing as his style of command. In addition to his trademark camouflage jungle suit, Tri's combat regalia usually include a black three-starred baseball cap, a snub-nosed Smith & Wesson .38 in a shoulder holster, a leather-covered briar pipe, and a swagger stick carried under the arm. "I use it to spank the Viet Cong," Tri says with a wide grin...
Under the shadow of a Venetian palazzo, the figure strides onstage in the regalia of an affluent Victorian gentleman -top hat, frock coat, gloves and cane...