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...that the psychedelic "revolution" is really under way, they are discovering new highs with dizzying speed, and their discoveries are passed quickly around the underground through such newspapers as Manhattan's East Village Other and the Berkeley Barb...
...Passos also interpolated his narrative with the Newsreel, an impressionistic montage of headlines and boldfaced journalism that sharpened the ironic barb of his deadpan stories. The three inventions-with the waning of Dos Passos' reputation-have been dismissed as fashionable quirks of the experimental '30s, like that of e e cummings' renunciation of the capital letter or Dos Passes' own abhorrence of the hyphen. It can now be seen that they were more than razzmatazz...
Plop No. 2 brings on a parcel of kitchy-kitchy-koo girls for Broadway's standard Babylonian revels. Captain Sanjar, who has dallied with the Princess Barbára, is ordered to trial by her father, the King. He must open one of two doors behind which lurk, respectively, a hungry tiger and a nubile damsel. The skit preserves the tricky non-ending from Frank Stockton's The Lady or the Tiger?, but it scarcely matters. To fill in the non-beginning and the non-middle, the dancing girls thrash around like palm trees in a tropical hurricane...
American diplomats in Paris seldom expect to see anything good about the U.S. in Viet Nam on French TV screens these days; often it is not so much the script as it is the commentator's sarcastic tone of voice that plants the barb. In any case, the TV fare does not help the U.S. image in France-or anywhere else for that matter...
...Berkeley (Calif.) Barb is an eight-to twelve-page weekly, less than a year old, with a circulation of 7,500. Says the Barb's bearded editor, Max Scherr, 50, a local bohemian of long standing: "I'm interested in all the little movements that are divergent from the mainstream of the culture." Scherr also admits-reluctantly-that sex and radical anti-Viet Nam articles are what sell his paper. Radical is the word. Wrote a Barb columnist known only as "The Roving Rat Fink," after President Johnson's recent speech in Omaha: "Never before...