Word: splat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More cities may soon feel the splat of the pie killers. For $50, Weiner is offering to any taker a "franchise kit" explaining the modus operandi. In Los Angeles, Pie Face International's Don Murdock is processing applications from potential hit men in Detroit, Chicago and New York, and has already taken on two operatives to service the capital area. "In Washington," he says, "the politicians are so removed from the people it takes a pie in the face to get them back to reality...
This is a soap bubble of a play. It floats about weightlessly. Its translucent emptiness glints with rainbow colors consisting of quippy dialogue and glamorously exploitative star performances. Expiring at last it drops to earth in the form of a sentimental teary splat...
...around and wins it when he realizes what a victory will do for his fellow cons' self-esteem and dignity. Robert Aldrich, the hell-for-leather director of items like The Dirty Dozen, fills the sound track with the crunch of every bone, the sight track with every splat of blood he can manage-terrible stuff, but viscerally stimulating. In a simple-minded way, it is also very effective, literally capable of making an audience stand up and cheer just as if they were in the stands at a real game...
...battle lines are clearly drawn. The McGovern young can argue with considerable justice that America's alienated youth were invited to work within the system, and (BAM! POW! SPLAT!) they did. Armed with the reform rules that McGovern helped to formulate, the young legions this year shattered political assumptions and shut down party machines that had been grinding on for decades. Through New Hampshire's bitter months, through the endlessly tedious precinct caucuses and state conventions, they mimeographed and telephoned and pounded door to door, living on peanut butter and jelly and spending their nights in sleeping bags...
When the pianist strikes up the "Butterfly" Etude, the performers appear with wings and antennae. A girl twirls daintily forward through two converging rows of dancers; when the lines part, there she lies-splat-on the stage floor. The pianist, his repertoire and his patience exhausted, suddenly grabs a huge butterfly net and chases the creatures offstage...