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...watched the Bermuda Strollers, the Rockin' Berries, and a famous American group no one had ever heard of go through their routines. While he was there, he was entitled to buy drinks at Club prices since he'd paid his $2 admission. A Singapore Sling went for $2.25, a banana special for $1.75. Everyone who visits Bermuda has to go to the Forty Thieves, but no one can go back a second time...
Cockroach and Crucifix. Typically, a Fahlstrom work is made of units: tiny cutout images of anything from a banana to Richard Nixon's head, from a bamboo stockade to a pile of feces, drawn with tightly focused and quite deliberate clumsiness and fixed to the base by magnets. The profusion and inventiveness of these units is dazzling. To scan Firing Squad (1968), is like spinning the selector of a TV set past images that suggest disaster but can barely be read in time-cockroaches, a panther, a G.I. doll on skis, a Bobby Kennedy headline, a crucified Lyndon Johnson...
...dishonorable discharge, he became a minor figure along New York's waterfront. He was arrested at least 12 times during this period and had three convictions on gambling charges. In 1964, authorities allege, Colombo ascended to leadership of Joseph Profaci's Mafia family in Brooklyn after the "Banana War" power struggle between the Profaci family and the Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno family. In 1966, Colombo served 30 days for contempt after he refused to answer questions put to him by a grand jury. In addition to his perjury for lying to a state agency in applying...
...able to ad-lib at precisely the right or occasionally the wrong time. Sometimes they dress up in funny costumes or become an encounter group, flinging insults, paper airplanes, even snowballs at each other. At program's end, while the credits roll, they all mill around the top banana's desk as if to continue the office party they had interrupted to go on camera. Much of this spontaneity is, of course, carefully scripted. And the journalistic japesters are heavily advertised with cornball photos and such socko slogans as "People like us because we like...
Sick Pun. Viewers of both genders will find their gourds rising at the occasional witlessness and tastelessness of the happy-talk humor. Reporting last year on the serious illness of Igor Stravinsky, a WABC banana man punned: "His heart is not right this spring." On Middle East stories, the station stoops to leads like, "Egypt and Israel continued to kick sand in each other's faces," or "The Israelis have as many reservations [about a truce continuation] as we have Indians." On Detroit's WJBK, a banana man playing Rowan to his forecaster's Martin asked...