Word: splat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three-Ring Circus (Paramount) has Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis selling frozen custard at the circus. Customers crowd around. All at once the bung blows out of the custard vat. Splat! Barrages of goo go glugging in all directions. Jerry tries to plug the hole with his fist. Fffffttt! His feet go silly on the slimy stuff, and down he slathers. "Helpfllgrrulp!" As he opens his mouth to holler, a stream of sweet bilge hoses down his esophagus. In a matter of seconds everybody in sight is wallowing gloriously in orange muck, and the whole scene looks like nothing...
After a few words of introduction from Doña Alicia, Poet Antonio Zubiaurre launched into his Death of Manolete, a lyrical tribute to one of Spain's great bullfighters. He had scarcely got the bull into the ring when his lisping Castilian was interrupted by the splat of a tomato against his coat lapel...