Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stopper" is a medley of three "follies" routines, each performed with geriatric gusto by old time performers Marcie Stringer, Charles Welch, Fifi d'Orsay and Ethel Shutta, who do their numbers separately (the first two as a duet) and then sing them simultaneously as a kind of old timers freak show. On the album the duet ("Rain on the Roof") has been cut entirely. Miss d'Orsay gets about one minute of recording time and Ethel Shutta is left to wail her magnificent "Broadway Baby" all alone and with about half of the lyric missing. It all goes...
...institutions instead of a cross-section of the population), and he derides government agencies such as the National Institute of Mental Health which propagate ignorance about drugs. (Remember the "Happy 21st Birthday Johnny" ads that showed a 30-year-old Harvard grad with make-up as a supposed speed-freak...
Which is why Rags is the kind of magazine that even Ralph Nader could freak out over...
...atmosphere, just add that little aesthetic flavor." Now, at $10 an hour, some affluent gentry of Norman, Okla., are renting the longhairs of the counterculture to decorate their parties. Thus, presumably in a triumph of free enterprise, a student whose parents have cut him off for looking like a freak can work his way through college by being...
...nastiness. He shoots the scene "live" -as far as most of the participants know, it is a real audition-and the fumblings and failings become the source of some crude, easy laughs. In partial compensation there are a couple of very funny performances by Vincent Schiavelli, playing a freak who tutors the S.P.F.C. in the art of blowing grass, and Buck Henry, whose acting shows shrewd restraint and a gratifying lack of the grandstand mugging that marred his appearance in Catch...