Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skin swells and turns a swamp color; her hair gets sticky and snaky; her voice comes out the croak of a just-cured male mute; convulsions contort her body and it flips like a wounded crocodile's tail; she drools green gook when she is not squirting vomit (pea soup) into the faces of the psychiatrists and priests who come to treat her. Before the guests at her mother's dinner party she urinates on the carpet; she smashes a psychiatrist in the groin; strapped to her bed she makes drawers open and windows crash and the furniture move...
...painstakingly mapped out--and most of the jokes, for better or worse, are inherent in the science fiction scenario of a post-holocaust future two hundred years from now. The same is true of the hero's new persona, which flows out of the scripted material like soup from a can, Allen sealed--maybe too tightly--in the perfect container...
...largely because of continuing shortages of many other products. Now the surge in petroleum costs will add devastating inflationary momentum; posted prices of Middle East crude oil have about tripled in recent months. For much of the first half of 1974, consumer prices for everything from gasoline to canned soup probably will be climbing at an astonishing annual rate of 10%. The best hope in Washington is that this rate will drop to about 4.5% in the second half, when officials believe that the full fury of the price hikes in food and energy will subside somewhat...
GOAT'S HEAD SOUP (Rolling Stones; dist. Atlantic). The uncensorable Stones in fighting trim...
...that he resign, when it is doubtful that sufficient evidence exists for impeachment (to say nothing about the odds of finding him guilty), is just about as silly as firing the captain and crew of a damaged jetliner while they are fighting for a successful landing in a pea-soup fog. Who would take over...