Word: mayhemic
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What keeps the mayhem from getting out of hand-but just barely-is the amiable kidding of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. Rowan, 46, is the smoothie, the fluent straight man who presides over the show as though it were a state dinner. Martin, also 46, is out to lunch. Hands stuffed in his pockets, rocking on his heels and giving out with a har-de-har-har laugh, he comes on like the original good-time Charlie. Their patter runs in quirky, who's-on-first circles like slightly modernized Abbott and Costello. Dan: "How does it feel...
...racial disturbances hit 172 cities, resulting in 43 deaths, 3,500 injuries and 27,000 arrests. Leaders among both blacks and whites feared that the emotional orgy of those few days would prove to be only a prelude to the nation's longest, hottest summer of urban mayhem...
...assault from the left was furious, fluky and bizarre. Yet the Chicago police department responded in a way that could only be characterized as sanctioned mayhem. With billy clubs, tear gas and Mace, the blue-shirted, blue-helmeted cops violated the civil rights of countless innocent citizens and contravened every accepted code of professional police discipline...
...lesbian pass-made in this case by Italy's Rossella Falk, whose slinky version of a dope-shooting dyke is the best bit in the film. Director Robert Aldrich, who cut close to the Hollywood bone 13 years ago with The Big Knife, moved on to more forthright mayhem with What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Hush . . . Hush Sweet Charlotte and The Dirty Dozen. Even in this company, Lylah Clare doesn't make...
...studio when an unscheduled interruption blared from the monitor. A flock of 20-odd not-so-gentle love children suddenly burst into the studio, pummeled the guards, twisted the director's arm, and took over the program, shouting slogans and obscenities while the cameras still looked on. The mayhem did not end until Manhattan's police, doing their own thing, arrived and collared the unruly invaders. Commented Glenn, while watching the boobs on the tube: "And they say there is violence on commercial television...