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Barmy
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Barmy 

a valuable shoulder garment decorated with religious drawings. Prince Ivan Kalita of Moscow was the first to have them in Russia (14th century). They were worn by Byzantine emperors and Russian princes (and by tsars from the middle of the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century) during coronations and ceremonial outings.



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His film ends up as a compendium of barminess rather than a believably deep insight into one man's character.
Detailing in near-collage form the summer holiday antics of a group of upper-middle-class Nanterre Maoists, it's imperishably essential, despite its basic political barminess, ceaselessly inventive, scornful, moving and funny, and worth examining alongside, say, Skidoo.
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