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...kook is Sally. Who else but Sandy Dennis? Sally's Congressman husband ("presidential material") has deserted her for another woman, who, according to Sally, "is as neurotic as I used to be." Coming from a pill-popping vodka swigger, this brings down the house. Dennis' ability to widen her eyes in engrossed shell shock, like a child who has dropped an ice cream cone, and to filter her voice through obdurate adenoids makes her an enduringly dotty delight...
Most fantastic courtroom swigger is Coca-Cola's prize defense witness, Curator Perry Wilbur Fattig of Emory University's Museum. In a lawsuit brought by a disgruntled consumer who had found a drowned black widow spider in the bottom of his Coca-Cola bottle, Curator Fattig put a live, wriggling black widow spider into his mouth, crunched and swal- owed it, sat quietly in the courtroom the rest of the session. Since chemical action of carbonated water sterilizes insect matter, Curator Fattig thinks nothing at all of downing such sodaed morsels as grasshoppers, houseflies, small toads and frogs...
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