Word: kapow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performed an aerial ballet. A chap in fluorescent lemon leotards wrestled with a space-age cobweb. Next came a drill team of Martian types outfitted with glowing lampshades, then seven creatures in baggy sacks who squiggled like giant amoebas in heat-all to the otherworldly twaaang, ratatatat, whizzz and kapow! of electronic music. It was called Vaudeville of the Elements, Choreographer Alwin Nikolais' latest excursion into the twilight zones of modern dance...
Their free-flowing antics can scarcely be congealed in print. One sight gag typifies the impish inventiveness that animates the evening. A man (Jonathan Lynn) holding a banana like a revolver starts firing away at imaginary foes, kapow! kapow! kapow! Suddenly the banana goes silent. He peels it down, throws the banana into the orchestra pit, keeps the skin, takes another peeled banana from a paper wrapper, inserts it meticulously in the empty skin, and resumes firing. Kapow...