Word: pow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boom bah, yippeda, yippeda, yipe. Yo ho heave ho, bibbedy, boppety, boo poop be doo dah. Zippy poo bang wow joo gee pow, pow pow, pow. Yap, sap, flap, trap, blap, bongada bongada...
...Sumter, S.C., knew his search for North Vietnamese SAM sites was over for the day. He saw a finger-shaped island below him, surrounded by a wrinkled sea studded with enemy junks. The only hope for survival lay in his yellow and black ejection handles. Whoosh went the canopy, pow went the 37-mm. cartridge under his seat, pop went the parachute. And for the next 40 minutes, Norm Huggins fought for his life...
With a wham and a bam, a sock and a pow, Director Edwards' accumulation of cliches explodes around the world, pausing for Curtis to demonstrate his torso and his skill with the epee, and for Lemmon to do a tedious bit as a faggish Mittel-European prince. No pastiche of the old masters would be complete without a pie fight. This one is the Ben-Hur of pie fights-it splatters more than 2,000 real cream pies of assorted flavors, and took five days to shoot. The scene even has a plot: Will Tony Curtis...
...writing! Op writing! Endless, streaming sentences with lots of dots . . . stretching . . . them out, and plenty of italics and exclamation points break ing them up, and anatomical words like glutei maximi, and funny-paper words like Pow! and crazy brand names and run-on lists of things - all cascading out of the . . . hottest . . . Royal Supermatic Floating Shift typewriter around...
...Donald Duck become a masochist? Does the disappearance of Mickey Mouse's goodness presage a decline of the West? How much power is conveyed in "bang" and "pow"? Such weighty questions were debated last week at Bordighera, Italy, at the first international exhibition of comic strips...