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Thousands of students and hippie-style dropouts are being drawn to a Viet Nam protest movement called Be-heiren, which often draws 5,000 "folksong guerrillas" to monthly protest meetings in Tokyo's swinging Shinjuku area. When the cops come, the kids give them flowers and songs instead of staves and curses. Sample...
...sang a song, "The Real American Folksong is a Rag," while Eric adjusted the lights. "Who wrote it?" he asked as he finished. No one knew...
Thanks to its three-man, two-woman cast, the show is funnier than its material, which takes its style from the sappy smile of Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine's trademark moron. The actors do versatile impersonations of the specialized zany-the hi-fi nut, the folksong nut, the technician nut whose means totally dwarf his ends. One of the funniest skits in the show features a TV sportscaster team that, with superb professional aplomb, misses the kickoff, the touchdown play, and even the score of a championship game, while cutting to "our man on the field," interviewing...
...seemed colorless and retiring, limited his campaign pitch mainly to a call for loyalty to Wilson and the defense of government policies. Moreover, to add to Labor's troubles, a red-bearded left-wing journalist named Richard Gott. 27, entered the race. One of the new breed of folksong-singing Britniks, whose counterparts are American college antiwar protesters, Gott campaigned only on one issue: "Stop the Labor government's support of the U.S. war in Viet Nam." His avowed aim was to draw 1,000 votes away from the Labor candidate, and it looked as if he might...
...wonder Steve Karmen, a folksong satirist, draws guffaws in Holly-woBd- with his recording of a not very funny take-off on Gimme Dat Ol'-Time Religion...