The Frelimo sentries were screaming and scattering around the fuel tankers, and from the perimeter of the laager a 12.7-men cannon opened up, sluicing gaudy strings of fiery tracer across the sky.

Bach Ourrros was tall, thin as a cadaver, with a long, tapering skull and a gaudy string of tertium rings through his left ear.

The Red Violin The discovery by an unscrupulous New York violin restorer (Samuel L. Jackson) that an instrument he has been assigned to work on is a legendary violin made in 1681 sets off a fanciful and gaudy string of tales.

Brightly packaged, with Kiss Me, Kate-style sets by Anna Louizos and costumes to match by the industrious William Ivey Long, Curtains lies on the stage like a promisingly gaudy string of firecrackers, waiting in vain for that vital, necessary spark to set it off.

(Brantley) 'CURTAINS' This musical comedy about a musical-comedy murder - featuring songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb and a book by Rupert Holmes - lies on the stage like a promisingly gaudy string of firecrackers, waiting in vain for a match.

The bear would have had him just the same, would have left Eddie Dean's guts hanging in gaudy strings from the lowest branches of the pine, if another of those sneezing fits had not come on it at that moment.

When she had poured the drinks she drank half of it in a single gulp, and then sat there swinging her leg and playing with the gaudy string of pearls at her throat.