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Vicarious degradation from the godfathers of mercenary humiliation is not "lighthearted havoc" [March 10]. The humble-pie manifesto reads clearly between the lines: 1) stamp out sanity, 2) uphold anarchy, 3) wreak pandemonium, and 4) escape reality...
Lighthearted Havoc. Many of the pientrepreneurs were inspired, and some actually franchised, by Manhattan-based Pie-Kill Unlimited, which has twelve operatives, has been in business for a year, and claims a face count of 178. Pie-Kill's manifesto, composed by Founder Rex Weiner, a pastry-faced 24-year-old, reads as if it had been collectively written by P.O. Wodehouse, James Bond and the Three Stooges. "Our high duty," it announces, "is to 1) stamp out pomposity; 2) uphold the virtues of surprise, randomness and chaos; 3) wreak lighthearted havoc whenever and wherever possible...
...marine creatures they have slithered against during the eons they have spent together down in the aquatic depths. The foursome exchange amusing and sometimes half-menacing notes on their differing life-styles and the pleasures and perils of evolution. In the end, in a kind of quasi-Marxist manifesto somewhat on the order of "Reptiles of the world, unite, you have nothing to lose but your tails," Nancy and Charlie entice the lizards into giving the earth...
...disintegrated and feminism rose, her views about her dead lover hardened. He became a violent sexist who had manipulated her love in large and small ways, including once writing "wash me" on a refrigerator to remind her of her domestic duties. In 1973 she wrote a long rambling feminist manifesto and sent it to Ms. magazine along with a set of her fingerprints to prove its authenticity. It included gratuitous details about the sexual problems of Melville and Rudd and said of the Attica dead, including her former lover: "I will mourn the loss of 42 male supremacists no longer...
...that the Mohawks had been pro-British belligerents during the Revolutionary War and had later signed away their lands. The Indians reject that claim. "The Mohawk land was lost by fraud, and its possession by New York State and the State of Vermont constituted] illegal usurpation," charges the Ganienkeh Manifesto...