Word: topper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man to Topper, unseen characters have terrorized towns and caused comic chaos. The tradition now moves into the business world with a much touted and timely new book: Memoirs of an Invisible Man, the first novel by Harry F. Saint, a New York City real estate investor. The central character of Memoirs, a securities analyst named Nick Halloway, becomes the ultimate inside trader when a botched demonstration of an exotic new technology makes him transparent. He slips into the offices of corporate raiders, overhears their takeover plans and makes a fortune by telephoning orders...
...record itself is permeated with gross misuse and abuse of synthesizers. The fervent pounding of ex-drummer Topper Headon has been replaced on many tracks by ineptly programmed drum machines. The rhythm tracks as a whole are little more than another inept rehash of mainstream British synth-pop. Even Strummer's sharp-edged guitar which figured so prominently on the band's early works, has lost its character, now grinding like a Husker Du album played into a feather pillow. It is generally accepted that Strummer has no vocal talent, and this record provides precious little evidence to the contrary...
Most actresses would give anything to appear simultaneously in a major movie and a New York play. Last year Glenn Close was doing just that, in the film The Big Chill and Broadway's The Real Thing. This year for a topper, Close, 37, is trying two of each. The Connecticut-born actress opens this week in an off-Broadway play, Childhood, and recently did an off-off-Broadway performance of Arthur Honegger's oratorio Joan of Arc at the Stake. At the same time, she has two movies in the can: The Jagged Edge, a courtroom drama, and Maxie...
...night and push the button and the roof opens up so you can see the stars," as . . . darlin'. A mother and daughter, real estate money, both completely spherical, describe the spring collection's piece de resistance, a long beaded white gown surmounted by a tailored denim topper, for $13,700, as darlin'. The customers do not often achieve the Galanos body. Ovoid or fireplug shapes are commoner, but a secret of these clothes is that they look darlin' on almost everyone...
...process requires painstaking attention to detail and a fair degree of endurance. One frame of Topper called for 30 different color assignments. Although the computer can carry most of those colors through the 24 frames that make up each second of the movie, it still takes technicians an average of four hours to finish one minute of color videotape. When it is done right, however, the effects are stunning...