Word: mods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A bowler-hatted Briton and a mod Honey West explore "The Murder Market," which is masquerading as a marriage mart...
...first discothèques, who holds 51% of Cheetah's $100,000 tether along with 49% owned by Borden Stevenson, middle son of Adlai. Coquelin knew his clientele. A rush-hour subway crowd pushed, shoved, stalked and stared at some 200 models dressed in the latest mod fashions. Men in flow ered shirts and wide ties squired girls wearing everything from Pucci prints and Paco Rabanne disks to weirdies from London's Carnaby Street and vinyl suits from Manhattan's Third Avenue boutiques. After watching the kinky Whip Dancers brought up from Andy Warhol...
...when, armed with several lethal weapons, he confronts his rival, "a greasy art dealer," and hoarsely croaks: "She married me to achieve insecurity-you can't take that away from her!" The point is almost proved by Vanessa's tantalizing ambivalence as Leonie, a tawny young Mod who half wants a life of Establishment order but hates to give up the explosive surprises provided by Morgan. "You'll have to fight him," she giddily tells her fiance, "and the winner will drag me off and have...
...engineer a couple of spectacular deaths among the crags, but the mood of boxed-in menace is efficiently destroyed. Held to a laggard pace, such veteran actors as Stanley Holloway, Wilfred Hyde-White and Leo Genn convey the resigned air of specialists summoned too late to be really useful. Mod sex appeal is dragged in by Shirley Eaton, fisticuffs by Hugh O'Brian. And, unlikely as it seems, there is Teen Idol Fabian, quaffing a lethal dose of poison immediately after singing a song. Fabian is the first of Indians' victims, and the luckiest...
Since World War II, says Thorwald, the problem of poisons has gotten dangerously out of hand. Hundreds of toxic agents are now available to millions as pesticides, cleansers, barbiturates and tranquilizers, and many cannot at present be detected in a cadaver. The mod ern world, in Thorwald's opinion, has become a poisoner's paradise in which do-it-yourself-death is on sale at the nearest supermarket-in the handy-dandy family size...