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...well enough to be assured of a good run. Bright, unaffected and zany, it romps around haunted houses and toy factories with no intention of making things all add up. The boys more or less sing two or three songs per show, while the camera follows them in surrealistic pandemonium aboard everything from unicycles to epicycles. The show ranks 53rd in the Nielsens, but it has 32% of the audience in its time spot and is getting stronger by the week. All the same, the surest sign that the Monkee gland will function comes not from TV or records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: Monkee Do | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

Tons of Danger. Sunday was a day of pure surrealist chaos. In Sag Harbor, a onetime whaling port, a fake whale was seen floating in the harbor; 15 pretty nurses lay down on three hospital beds set smack in the middle of the highway. But nothing matched the pandemonium on Montauk's bluffs. There the Montauk Fire Department's hoses and two foam makers were turned loose, sending gallons upon gallons of fire-fighting foam billowing down the cliffs. Joined by hardened surfers, who left their boards to join in the fun, Kaprow, like Moses, led his tribes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Happening at the Hamptons | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...middle of the octagonal bean pit in Chicago's Board of Trade, hundreds of beige-jacketed traders snouted and jabbed out hand signals to make their trades. Amid the pandemonium, messengers dashed about picking up written confirmations. In the offices of the commission houses, clerks clocked up overtime hours; at one firm they slept only three hours in three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commodities: Commotion in the Bean Pit | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...Pandemonium broke loose on the floor as Deputies shouted angrily, and finally, with only 47 Deputies present, Speaker Emmanuel Baklatzis, a Papandreou supporter, declared the session suspended on the grounds that "lack of a quorum constitutes an indication of disapproval of the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: Impasse in Athens | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

...this point pandemonium broke out and a chorus of angry fans who had $25 to $100 a seat to see the contest crowded the ring screaming "Fix!" and "Fake...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matthews, | Title: Clay Beats Liston in First-Round Kayo (Sort of); Fans Chorus 'Fix' After Referee's Unusual Decision | 5/26/1965 | See Source »

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