Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Horror of Party Beach, billed as "the first horror monster musical," gets off to a swingin' start with a bunch of teen-agers engaged in puberty rites at the shore. But man, dig that cat out there on the jetty. He's real cool. Looks like a stalk of asparagus with an artichoke heart for a head. Marinated by radioactive waste, maybe. And there's more where he came from. Crazy? Let's dance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When a trio known as the Del-Aires isn't pushing that Big Beat, the big beasts claim...
Rocky delivered a speech in Portland and drew an enthusiastic crowd of 2,000. When he got to Grants Pass (pop. 10,000), a bunch of characters wearing animal skins descended and made him a member of the Oregon Cavemen, a local society that quadrennially pops up to embarrass presidential candidates by making them look like idiots in photographs. In Albany (pop. 13,000), several colorfully clad "Princesses" belonging to the Timber Carnival and some red-suited gents ceremoniously made Rocky an honorary Woodpecker...
Shortly afterward, another fair-bound train stopped in the station, and again a bunch of demonstrators wedged themselves in the doorways to keep the train from starting. This time a flying squad of Transit Authority police, some of them Negro, barreled to the rescue. The protesters refused to budge. The cops hauled them out one by one. Some of the demonstrators, several of whom were white, began fighting back. Billy-clubs began swinging, and before long some of the demonstrators were nursing bloodied heads. In all, 23 of them were carried off to jail...
When Peter Brook's film version of Lord of the Flics fell smack on its allegorical face last year, it seemed that a bunch of kids might come close but finally couldn't bring off a serious Work of Art. Recently, however, an old director, Yves Robert, a slew of French child actors (les cent gosses), and a wonderfully appropriate script, The War of the Buttons (adapted from Louis Pergaud's novel) simply meshed...
...Philadelphia Debutante Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill (TIME, Sept. 13). Seven combat veterans of the after-party brawl were hailed to court on charges of "malicious mischief" in causing $6,000 worth of damage to a beach house Fernanda's stepfather Donald Leas had rented to put up a bunch of the boys for the weekend...