Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening curtain finds Scuba Duba's hero holding a huge scythe in the middle of a Riviera chateau draw ing room. Harold Wonder (Jerry Orbach) has an albatross complex and a symbolic knife at his throat. While his two children lie asleep upstairs, his wife is out cuckolding him with a Negro skin-diver, or so he thinks. Harold, in a skull-popping panic, half-dials phones, swigs champagne from a bottle, runs to the door with his scythe and roars out bloody maledictions on "the Goddamn spade frogman." In a performance marvelously sustained at the pitch of brilliance...
...solos with sharp staccato blasts shaking him from head to toes. Tschudin, scorning more pedestrian methods, gets high on his organ and builds climatic crescendos of musical phrases. As for Hillman, the other four call him the Ghost Rider, because "he can draw fast enough to shoot a knife that's being thrown at him." He has a wonderful habit of bending the final electronic note of his beautiful guitar solos--a habit which invaliably draws a series of awe-struck screams from his delighted fans, the audiences happy to discover a 3-performance-old group in Cambridge who know...
...Penthouse. An adulterous real estate dealer (Terence Morgan) and his bird (Suzy Kendall) appropriate his client's penthouse pad for a love-in. Next morning two men (Tony Beckley and Norman Rodway) arrive, ostensibly to check the gas meter. A moment later, one of them brandishes a switchblade knife and suddenly gives the tryst a dreadful twist. Introducing themselves as Tom and Dick-Harry, they giggle, is waiting downstairs-the men truss Morgan with ribbons, and force Kendall to down tumblers of Johnnie Walker and puff on a marijuana joint. Then, mind-blown and stoned, she is twice raped...
...Still, it is likely that at least 10 million people will persist in remembering him as the Mingo who threw the Johnny Carson Tonight show into an uproar in 1965. Ames, a deadeye natural athlete who can hit a bull's-eye from 20 paces with a bowie knife, went on the Carson program as a guest. According to the script, he was to fling a tomahawk at an eight-foot-high cardboard cutout of a cowboy; during rehearsal, he hit the target in the heart 19 times straight. On the air, old Mingo took...
...eleventh-hour effort to save the President's $3.37 billion foreign aid bill from its knife-wielding critics, House Speaker John McCormack took to the floor last week to plead the Administration's case. "This is the time when we should continue with strength," he urged. "This is not a time for us to evidence weakness...