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...Splat Falls. Push Comes to Shove is the name of the ballet; its inventor is Choreographer Twyla Tharp. Last week it was unveiled by the American Ballet Theater at Manhattan's Uris Theater, and it just might be the most important event of the dance year. With cinematic speed, the cast of characters tumbles around the stage to the sounds of Haydn's 82nd Symphony. Isn't that Buster Keaton? There's Joe Namath and a courtful of jokers, heroes and heroines all. Linked by sheer velocity, the steps merge in combinations that are silly...
...orders Lynn had barked out, the clowning around continued. A frisbee flew out from the direction of the boat house and looked seriously in danger of hitting the water, before Nancy Storrs made a deft catch and tossed it back. It went straight up, curved, and landed splat in the river. Everyone groaned. "Okay," Nancy said, "do I jump in now or later...
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...