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Beyond the Fringe, a remarkable revue, offers four young English antiEstablishmentarians aiming blowgun darts of parody with poisonously amusing accuracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 11, 1963 | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

Beyond the Fringe. No musical, but the funniest revue in years, this lunatic entertainment offers four young English antiEstablishmentarians aiming blowgun darts of parody with poisonously amusing accuracy at Shakespeare, Harold Macmillan, and positive-thinking clergymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 4, 1963 | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

From the Second City is a Chicago-born revue that jauntily aims a satiric blowgun at beatniks, headline heroes, the University of Chicago, and the company of man, and most of its darts are incontestably funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dec. 15, 1961 | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...conventional" arms because of our budgeted buildup, it's plain that the next war must be fought with triremes, broadswords, crossbows and assagais. (Would catapults be cheating?) I do hope we have alerted our archery clubs, hammer throwers and those of our allies still expert with spear and blowgun (politicians might qualify on the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1961 | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...hero and seduced his fiancee while boosting a dangerous new tranquilizer; he is about to ditch his boss as a Senate committee begins to ask unpleasant questions. But the sight of his employer cruelly beset by Senators is too much. Logan's cry, as he unsheathes his blowgun and prepares to stand off the foe: "The little son of a bitch is going to need help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Drumbeatniks | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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