It haunts the third act, which returns to realism, with the chirpy chaps of the first act destroyed by injury.
No less a critic than the painter John Sloan wrote, in the short-lived arts journal The Chap-Book, of "the spectacle of their prolonged pasturing on each other's lips".
Perhaps that is the natural ageing process in Sweden, all men end up looking like Sven, apart from the chaps from Abba of course.
The chaps just out of Oxford booze and bray, while the home secretary bores everyone to death and our hero, Nick, tries to get off with the waiter.
He opens his mouth — winces at the chapped cracks of his lips — and bites down on a roll of gauze, uses an antiseptic towel on his finger.
Coulson, because of his links with the Murdoch empire and his tabloid experience, was given the benefit of the doubt, a privilege once reserved by the establishment for chaps of impeccably upper-class background.
STEPHANIE ZACHAREK 'Summer With Monika' (1953) Suffering through the chapped torment of his spiritual interrogations, you could forget that Ingmar Bergman, a great filmmaker who gravitated to the solemn and ponderous, could also be a sensualist.
After this came a period of about 12 months during which we saw a significant reduction in mortality of 45%, very similar to those reported in the Cote d'Ivoire trial and the CHAP trial of HIV positive children in Zambia.
Next month, the first Chap of the Year contest, a one-day event held in central London, will be launched.
Most of the chaps have got their jackets off.
