Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...singers' clothes and gestures. Rigoletto in hat and coat recalls Willy Loman with a hump; Gilda sports a flaring gray poodle-skirt, a bright red cardigan sweater and ponytail tied with a matching red ribbon. The duke, when he comes a-courting, looks sublimely ridiculous in a red monogrammed vest. Even the courtship scene between the duke and Gilda is straight out of the '50s, reminiscent of that porch swing on a summer night--a worthy tradition in its way, but ill-suited to the Late Romantic love that's actually supposed to be going on here...
...fundraising committee, and to the Board of Trustees about her fundraising plans. Good faith and trust cannot develop if, on the one hand, PBHA plans the centennial of the Association openly with Dean Epps while, on the other hand, the Assistant Dean keeps her cards held closely to her vest on this and other issues...
...stuff cold. Then when the Dick Morris scandal broke, Halpin immediately dispatched the writer to find and interview a prostitute. "We wondered if maybe hookers were untapped sources of political gossip," says Halpin. For the "security issue," one of Stim's contributors wanted to put on a bulletproof Kevlar vest and let a friend shoot him in the chest. (The experiment was scotched when the shooter chickened...
Even in the final fencing scene between Laertes and Hamlet, a fencing vest is worn featuring fake pecs and six-packs that would make Batman jealous. Later, Branagh's vest is removed to uncover a skin-tight tank top, revealing, of course, Branagh's chest hair. Not only does Branagh seem to wish desperately that he be immediately lauded as sex symbol of the decade, but he also employs some heavy-handed Christ imagery when he is carried out after Fortinbras' coronation. Branagh seems to be going for much more than an Oscar here...
...goes. Another night on the job for the bullet-proof-vest-clad officer...