Word: trenchcoat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's quite a temptation to elevate symbols over reality, especially when you call yourself Peter Jennings or Dan Rather and you're standing in a trenchcoat next to the Wall, reporting on live network television. But the primary obstacle to reunification was never the Wall itself, but the yawning political chasm between two 40-year-old international alliances. When and if it comes, reunification will be preceded by a gradual German abrogation of the opposing supranational commitments which keep them at arm's length...
...sidelines, Captain Paul Baverstock--sidelined for the season with a knee injury--watched the game with a trenchcoat wrapped around his crutches. His first comments were about Cochrane. And "classy" is what he called the fresh-man's performance...
Andrew Osbourne makes a divine Bogey and gets lots of laughs with his high-collar trenchcoat. Don't worry about women, he advises his hapless apprentice, "It's nothing a little bourbon and soda wouldn't help." Felix answers, "If I had a thimble full of bourbon, I'd go out and get tattooed...
...every day that someone wearing a trenchcoat and heels and comes to Harvard to dance...
Kopit's central metaphor is that of the playwright as detective. Soon enough, Trent's curiosity defeats his hesitation. In a Philip Marlowe trenchcoat, Trent dutifully goes to Washington to search for clues. But the confusion only gets worse as he tries to discover the logic of nuclear policy, as well as why Stone has chosen him for the commission...