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...Chicken Ranch became an accepted extracurricular activity - and the scene of some rites of passage. "If we found out somebody was a virgin," says one A. & M. graduate, "we'd kidnap him, tie him up on the floorboard, and take him to the ranch." So routine were evenings at Edna's that the school began to provide penicillin free...
Murderously Funny. Orton aimed to outrage, but he also calculated to delight. His dialogue is wickedly original and his vision manages to combine the commonplace and the diabolic. It is as if by loosening a floorboard one could look down at flames. No author could demand a more empathetic director than Douglas Hickox, who understands the Ortonic core: the road to hell is paved with good inventions. The whole cast performs with ease; the kinkier the farce, the straighter their faces. Their achievement is that most difficult feat: a funny murder made murderously funny...
...hospital in 90 minutes; there would not be time for a devotional at home. Gordon Roberts pulled off the highway, the family clasped hands and prayed-among other things, for a safe trip. When Gordon started up again, little Philip was still on his knees on the front floorboard, singing one of his favorite hymns...
...Brakes. In Minnesota, eager Salesman Kenton Hicks, hearing of a deal he could close 126 miles away in Brainerd, rented a car, left Minneapolis at floorboard speed, was arrested in Robbinsdale, then St. Cloud, then Little Falls (each time for doing 100 m.p.h.), did not get to Brainerd...
...week the promoters decided to gamble again. Almost as if they had forgotten 1955's monstrous moment of tragedy when a crack-up spilled into the crowd and killed 83, they turned the drivers loose; a man could carry enough fuel to keep his throttle foot on the floorboard as long as he dared. And almost as if they had forgotten, too, some 250,000 spectators crowded close to the barriers to watch the cars spin past...