Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:23:03 -0500

From: Robert Ness ness[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DICKINSON.EDU

Subject: The full Monty (fwd)



There was a piece by Safire in

Sunday's (11/16) New York Times

about the expression "the full Monty."



Also, does anyone recall the Masterpiece

Theatre production a few years ago of

"The Politician's Wife", with Juliet

Stevenson in the title role and also

starring Minnie Driver? The plot line

was about a philandering ambitious Tory

politician who gets his comeuppance.

Anyway, there is a scene in the play

where a man dies (the father of the

Juliet Stevenson character) and is

buried in a very lavish funeral. One

of the other characters says something

like "Well, they gave him the full

monty" which, in the context of the

play implied that he was all decked out

in his finery.