Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mayotte, the youngest of eight tennis-minded children, can still remimsce about high school trench classes and complain about his old parochial school uniforms: Despite his age. Mayotte is firmly committed to the game. His rigorous travel schedule and the necessary mental preparation have undoubtedly forced him to make certain sacrificed...
...PURPOSE PLOTLINE provides a virtual directory of comic strategies and styles. The segments which work best draw on the longtime Python staple of pure, straightforward silliness. This impulse motivates Gilliam, as a crusty general, to set up a lace tablecloth in an embattled World War I trench. Viewers are cheerfully bid welcome "to the Middle of the Film, where we will play a game of... Find the Fish" Fish, particularly goldfish, remain a dominant theme throughout, prompting various subtitled admonishments from the "management" and offering ironic social commentary from a strategically positioned aquarium...
...seeks laughter, as a train rider so jolted he pops his grapes into his seat mate's mouth, and tears, as a soldier whose trench mate dies in his arms. The man loves symbols. He slides his hands across his face, as if trying on masks. His expression changes quickly, precisely, but never subtly: it is a childlike grin, or a petulant frown, or a quivering rage. In another moment, the man is a sculptor, chiseling a massive imaginary block until it becomes a miniature, a fragment, then dust. Slow fade, then, to emphasize that this is a self...
...running shoes, Lombino headed for the U.S. passport office on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Though he had been assured that there would be no problems, Lombino, now joined by Campione, nervously showed up an hour early to check out the area. They quickly spotted too many men wearing trench coats and reading newspapers. Sensing a trap, Lombino ran down the up escalators to the street and jumped into a cab before he could be captured. The startled Campione simply disappeared into the crowd...
...prestigious 160-year-old debating society, had a familiar ring: "This house would not fight for Queen and country." Exactly 50 years earlier, on Feb. 9, 1933, the Union debated the same subject in the same wood-paneled hall. On that occasion, memories of World War I trench warfare were still vivid, and the motion was carried, 275 to 153. Only a few people seemed concerned that Adolf Hitler had just come to power in Germany. Even so, the pacifists' victory stirred an outcry. The Daily Express ranted against the "woozy-minded Communists, practical jokers and sexual indeterminates...