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...friend a piggyback ride on his motorbike. As word of the arrest spread along the beach front, kids in madras shorts and sweatshirts began to crowd onto the main street, chanting "Let him out! Let him out!" Hundreds climbed to the roof of a nearby dance hall, began to pelt the police below with bottles, cherry bombs and rocks. Others broke in the windows of nine stores, turned over a patrol car. When 125 policemen from neighboring counties arrived and began to search nearby tourist cabins, they discovered, among other things, a room that contained 42 people, including four nude...
Charlie's chief tormentor, Lucy van Pelt, is a tiny, black-haired termagant, a caricature of the modern aggressive female. "Here's a perfect parody of what American life is supposed to be," says Pogo's creator Walt Kelly: "The ineffectual male and the domineering female." "Blockhead!" Lucy shouts at Charlie, and the insult throws him into a somersault. When she has outwitted him, she purrs: "I admire your boundless faith in human nature." Bellows this girl who aspires to go to military school: "I don't want any downs-I just want...
...becomes apparent that the members are either vulgar or epicene, and need a supercilious, tuxedo-skinned British barman to insult and be insulted by. The two sons present would like the two fathers present to drop dead. When the girls express their contempt by simultaneously breaking wind and then pelt the place with tennis balls, plaster spills, roof beams totter, and it becomes clear that Kopit is one of the cosmic jokesmiths who want playgoers to read books of revelation between the wisecracks. What Tennis may portend is that self-contained worlds, either private clubs or entire civilizations, invite...
...ruby necklace," Laddie remarked brightly to his wife at Palm Beach's Poinciana Playhouse, whereupon he learned that his wife's genuinely rosy wrap was the harbinger of a new fad for pink mink. The skins of the specially mutated minks cost quite a mite ($400 per pelt, and a coat takes 60 pelts), which the average married Homo sapiens may find rather a high level of evolutionary development...
...Theater with the La Scala Opera Company to show what they could do with Verdi's Requiem. Quite a lot, as it turned out. The crowd, including Nina Khrushchev, enveloped the visitors in a bear hug, howling "Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!" and mashing its way down the aisles to pelt the stars with carnations in a 26-minute storm of applause that included 16 curtain calls...