Word: wigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...messengers have been Swiss diplomats. But last week a flood of light on the back channels disclosed the activities of a collection of surprising messengers: an Argentine fixer, a leftist French lawyer, and White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan. Disguised as a middle-aged man, with a gray wig, mustache and tinted glasses, the 35-year-old Jordan has traveled several times to Europe for clandestine meetings with go-betweens...
...Francisco Opera's new production of Amilcare Ponchielli's sprawling, lurid La Gioconda last September was a vast undertaking, and PBS station KCET had the wit to record the preparations in a funny, breezy documentary, Opening NightThe Making of an Opera. The camera roams in wig shops and rehearsal rooms, where Baritone Norman Mittelman after fluffing a line complains that the composer wrote it wrong. At the shaky dress rehearsal Kurt Herbert Adler, 75, the company's director, notes, at that late hour, that the chorus is posi tioned so that ticketholders on the right...
...star is discovered, between acts, in his dressing room. He is wearing a Viking's helmet, complete with horns, over a wig of lank brown hair, a corset over a lace shirt. On his right hand there is a boxing glove. He claims, in the rich, ripe tones of yesteryear's provincial matinee idol, that he was about to do his imitation of Queen Victoria, but that he has forgotten what she looks like. The program's ever harassed star and manager, who just happens to be a very green, very agreeable frog, tells his guest that though he loves...
...model who was "big and burly" and "personified Democratic politicians of the postwar era." The agency gave the assignment to Ed Steffe, 72, a character actor and self-described Wendell Willkie Republican from Manhattan. In the commercial, which was previewed in Washington last week, Steffe, wearing a white wig and identified as a Congressman, sits behind the wheel of a long, black Lincoln Continental with registration plates marked DEMOCRAT. As the car sputters to a stop, an announcer declares: "The Democrats are out of gas. We need some new ideas. Vote Republican-for a change." No one is laughing harder...