Pip (Douglas Booth) is introduced as a grimy apprentice blacksmith, receives a life-changing sum of money from his mysterious benefactor and rapidly metamorphoses into a velvet-clad dandy.
"Do you think I'm stupid?" asks Luna (Diane Keaton) in Sleeper, before transforming herself with books of Marxist theory into a khaki-clad revolutionary; "she's read a few books and suddenly she's an intellectual," complains Allen's Miles.
Fires burning, eggs thrown, windows smashed, activists with scarves across their faces barricaded into a marble-clad lobby after exchanging punches with police, all to chants of "Tory Scum".
Faster than you can say Sky News, Geordie transforms Tony into a balaclava-clad street thug, with the encouragement of Tony's gran, Maud, who is kept in espadrilles and bingo nights by Geordie's weekly wads of cash.
And Peter Parker's journey into psychological cruelty is more camp than anything else - which Raimi appears to concede by sending the whole thing up, and turning Parker into a black-clad finger-snapping hipster, a one-man rat-pack of spite.
Annette Funicello, who grew from a child actor on Walt Disney's "Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s into a bikini-clad pop star in '60s films such as "Muscle Beach Party," died on Monday at 70. Below are some highlights from her career as "the queen of teen": And they closed the show with a sign-off song: The show included short serial stories featuring some of the actors.
He developed the persona into a leather-clad egomaniac, describing his outfit as having Lou Reed's glasses, Elvis Presley's jacket, and Jim Morrison's leather pants.
Even before the mixed critical reception had coalesced into an iron-clad verdict, phrases from the screenplay by Francis Coppola, John Milius and Michael Herr (with a little help from Joseph Conrad) were already reverberating above and beyond their context in the film: "Saigon.
Some Harvard types speculated bitterly that he wanted to turn Harvard into an Ivy-clad version of the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the university that accepted the young Larry when Harvard turned him down.Above all, there were the tensions that flowed from his desire to strengthen a famously weak presidency.
Wagner's Christianity is a grim cult of chastity, obedience, order, and war, a Spartan vision of a master race of true believers — a death cult that gains its legitimacy from its possession of relics, a possession that forces them into an iron-clad submissiveness.
