Word: cabareting
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...outlook and a mood that today pervade many other areas besides fiction. Dr. Strangelove, treating the hydrogen bomb as a colossal banana peel on which the world slips to annihilation, is a black-humor movie, even though it becomes so incredible that it kills its own joke. Satirical cabaret groups, such as Chicago's Second City or Britain's The Establishment, have offered some of the liveliest black humor, though they can hardly meet Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan's criterion that such satire is successful only if at least a third of the audience stalks...
...this concept go too far, losing control and causing disarray in the Eastern alliance. Rumania, for instance, would not play ball with Russia's self-serving Comecon (common market); and Hungary, which Khrushchev brutally suppressed during the 1956 rebellion, became daring enough to allow scornful "political cabaret" acts to have free reign. All this illustrated the dictator's classic problem: once he loosens his grip, it is hard to know where, when, or if things will stop...
...town or goes out on the town pays the taxes, which generally vary from 5% to 10%. Among the taxed items: household appliances, cameras, sporting goods, autos and auto parts, stock transfers, motor fuel and lubricants, telephone bills, office machines, electric light bulbs, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pens, cabaret tabs, theater and sports admissions. As a means of regulation, as much as a source of revenue, heavy taxes are also slapped on gambling, pinball machines, tobacco and alcohol: $10.50 per gallon of liquor, $9 per barrel of beer, 8? per pack of cigarettes...
...viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginning grow," wrote Dryden. In the Manhattan cabaret called Second City, Satirist Severn Darden, posing as a mad Germanic art professor, explains in effect what the poet meant...
Artificial grass carpeting and cabaret tables ringed the dance floor. To the distress of Secret Service men, tourists strolling along Pennsylvania Avenue had what amounted to ringside seats. The evergreens set out as a screen at the last minute were too skimpy to block the view. As it turned out, it was quite a show...