Word: chap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terminal case of non sequitur? Bungling in the bindery? Or should blame-and credit-be assigned to the Organization for the Electronic Production of Homogenized Literary Works, operating out of New York to reduce all fiction to One Novel? Or is the erratic anthology the fault of an odd chap named Ermes Marana, who dashes about the world scribbling novels in native languages and native styles, then dashes home to translate them...
Nore is now 30 and no longer quite the pliable good chap he grew...
...here's the video tape again with still another angle on lago as he evilly fingers Desdemona's hanky. And look! lago is curling the old lip just a trifle. Nice curl too, eh, Chuck? This chap was learning lip curling when the rest of that cast couldn't find the proscenium arch with both hands. Incidentally, about that hanky -you know, the star himself bought that hanky for 79? at Lamston 's just before opening when it turned out the prop man used the real thing as a dustcloth. Now back to the action onstage...
...decision to retire: I stayed on because I decided that if we [white officers] all bailed out there would be a collapse. I had made no definite time period, and Prime Minister Mugabe had mentioned no definite time period. But I don't think a chap should be at the top too long, and I also thought I'd had a pretty long innings. Perhaps I could have achieved far more and would have been prepared to stay if I had been given more authority...
...from the police, who stumbles upon a movie company on location. Eli Cross (Peter O'Toole) is a fine parody of an energetic, egomaniacal director. He offers Lucky a change of identity on high-risk terms: take over the stunt man's job recently vacated by a chap who may or may not have been sent to his doom by the director's pursuit of a terrific death scene. In return the young man will get protection from the police. Cross is as good as his word in the matter, but before the happy denouement he puts...