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Ambrose Bierce defined an adage as “boned wisdom for weak teeth”; the challenge to the epigrammatist is to put some teeth into it.
The screenwriters, Adam Scheinman and Robert Kuhn, have boned up on their Feydeau and Fawlty Towers --not to mention the slew of mobster movies to which they cheerfully make reference (and from which the filmmakers have hired most of the supporting cast).
The young court ladies in Elizabeth appear in their natural hair and skin, wearing modern-looking Renaissancey garments that run to becomingly mobile and flowing silk dresses with smoothly boned bodices.
Most of the candidates boned up on the subject with the aid of Joy E. Parkinson's Manual of English for the Overseas Doctor , a book that enjoyed a brisk sale at the beginning of the 1980s.