Word: socko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point. John Wayne has become one of the pop-artifacts of contemporary life. He carries with him the unmistakable aura of camp and comic strip, as if his conversation came in balloons. As if when he slugged the opposition there would issue forth a thunderous THWACK! and SOCKO! In person, the seamed, leathery face seems an extension of his saddle. A handshake lets the visitor know how a baseball feels when it is swallowed by Frank Howard's glove. True, the unwigged forehead goes clear back to his crown, but the size-18 neck defies collars...
...make clear in Act III of his off-again, on-again presidential campaign that he had finally reached a decision. Then, on the very day that he proclaimed his "active candidacy," New York's Governor captured Massachusetts' Republican primary without even trying, followed up with a socko first day of stumping in Iowa. While he is far behind Richard Nixon, Rockefeller demonstrated that there is once again a lively contest for the G.O.P. nomination...
...week. They have also brought her serious illness and four divorces. But last week, as she finished a three-week stand at Manhattan's Copacabana, she wore it all with a light, insouciant snap of the fingers and a knowing smile. And her performance was, as always, socko...
...ancient nemesis, Astérix is the creation of René Goscinny, 40 (Albert Uderzo, 39, does the drawing). His secret potion, mixed by the druid Panoramix, is to Astérix what spinach is to Popeye. He and Obélix uppercut their foes with such equivalents of "Socko!" as "Tchad" and "Patchoc!" Every page has a brawl, and the puns fly as fast as the fists, whether Astérix and Obélix are smuggling a barrel of the potion into Britannia to aid an ally besieged by the Romans or rescuing Panoramix from the cabbage-eating...
...Broadway potboiler, Leary's new show ought to be socko box office, as Variety might put it, although nabes in the sticks will be better off running Tarzan instead. For acid heads and the impressionable, however, Leary provides all the right production values: religiose gimmicks, weirdo music, sexo fantasy, all boffo. Following a run of twelve weekly performances in Manhattan, Leary will open his show in California, which manages to be boffo, religioso, weirdo and sexo with or without LSD. The turn may not make psychedelic drug-taking and its kicks comprehensible to the average ticket buyer...