Word: wig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweating uncomfortably under the incongruous TV lights, Britain's nobly dressed bishops, judges, peers and politicians jammed the House of Lords last week as Queen Elizabeth arrived in a glass coach and took her seat on a gilded throne. Up strode a graceful man in a wig, damask robe and black velvet breeches. Kneeling, he handed the monarch her speech. Kneeling, he took it back after Elizabeth had read it - thus opening Parliament with a rit ual that has scarcely changed at all since the first Elizabeth performed it 400 years...
...Azur, in honor of the old girl's favorite playground, and Cannes' Whisky à GoGo discothèque was faithfully reproduced while French-born Decorations Chairwoman Jeanine Levitt looked like an ondine from the Riviera in a sapphire-studded Griffe and a peacock blue wig...
What seems to keep them unhinged in Act I is the sheer lack of anything to do. Newton fiddles with his curly 18th century wig, Einstein saws at his fiddle, while Solomon keeps listening for those voices in his head. The lady hunchback (Jessica Tandy) who manages this loony bin shuffles around like a witch off a broomstick. Her charges all murder their nurses...
Died. Harpo Marx, 75, wackiest and most wonderful of the four Marx Brothers, a master of madhouse pantomime in battered plug hat and shocking pink wig, whose endless trove of sight gags (a skirt needs straightening? Whee! Cut it off.) and leering, horn-honking, pinching pursuit of squeaking blondes kept a generation of Americans in helpless laughter-and a thousand comedians trying to top him; following heart surgery; in Hollywood. Behind the idiot grin, Harpo (real name: Adolph) was a witty, gentle soul, married to one woman for life, and the doting father of four adopted children; he was also...
...major characters, Bruce Kornbluth's York is very fine. He plays his part with a combination of hesitation and nobility that must be incredibly hard to attain. And, significantly I think, he makes his fantastic wig and makeup seem part of him, not just something stuck on to show...