Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week McCormick Place lay in a wild ruin of twisted steel, tumbled concrete and smoking ashes. It was the victim of a blaze that, in total money terms, rivaled the fire...
...Victim No. 1 is a wealthy widow (Anna Quayle) who consoles herself by bawling the Kashmiri Song ("Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar/ Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway far?") while she somehow makes her harp sound like a bedspring banged with a coal scuttle. Before long teeny Tony, her stepson and heir, just can't face the music. So he runs a wire from his toy-train set to the frame of the harp, transforming it into a colossal toaster that does stepmother up brown...
...Victim No. 2 is Wife No. 1 (Zsa Zsa Gabor), the jet-set jabbernaught Tony meets and marries when he grows out of short pants. With rocks on her fingers and rocks in her head, she gives Tony two months of Gaboredom until one day he leaves her locked in the capsule of a space rocket that promptly becomes the world's first guided Mrssile...
...till in Victim No. 4 (Rosanna Schiaffino), phony Tony meets a mankiller who shows him how two can die as cheaply as one. By that time, unfortunately, the joke has gone on too long, and the spectator is left with a somewhat unnerving realization: at 41, Curtis seems most at home in his scenes as Little Lord Fauntleroy...
...wedding be between one of the depraved and a young, Greek innocent. Her purity of thought (which borders on the feeble-minded) will really point up the futility of it all. And then, glory of glories!, have the Deprived One murder the beautiful bride of the Depraved One. One victim of the system destroying another. Only the causes of the whole tragedy surviving it. What irony! What tragedy! What...