Word: toilet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University has never officially recognized the assembly in the three years since it was created by the vote of a majority of undergraduates. Now operating under "provisional" recognition until the Dowling Committee completes its review, the assembly has an unimpressive record of past accomplishments--from free toilet paper to a rock concert--contributing to the widespread perception that it is little more than a plaything for "gov jocks...
...uninitiated--called "virgins"--the audience has seen the movie one, two, five, ten or fifty times before, they have memorized all the lines, and added quite a few of their own; they throw rice and cards and toast and confetti and hot dogs and rolls of toilet paper, squirt water pistols and light candles (or shine flashlights, depending on fire regulations) at appropriate moments; they act the movie out on stage as it appears on screen. And now a sequel film, Shock Treatment, is in the works...
Behind the opening credits bold sketches of the Seven appear while a guitar strums revolutionary chords. Then the director cuts to a close-up of a plunger in a toilet while the couple hosting the reunion chatters about Ajax and other domestic topics. The talk throughout is startlingly apolitical--mostly gossip about who's sleeping with whom, who's breaking up with whom. They are afraid of the Trilateral Commission; they don't think too much of Jimmy Carter--nothing too deep, no trace, for example, of Marxism. When they are busted for killing a deer (they are innocent), each...
...nuclear physics at City College of New York, spoke of the recent mishap that killed one person at a Titan II nuclear missile site in Arkansas. He recited a list of nuclear weapons and power plants that have problems, including a reactor in Florida that malfunctioned whenever a toilet flushed and one in California that was installed backwards...
...interesting for a while, and something I always wanted to do. Then when I realized I had to change the toilet paper and buy all the booze, I grew tired of it in a hurry." In 1977, nearly broke, he ditched the club. Enter the Unknown Comic...