Word: zap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ginger is no old bag. She maintains her excellent figure with exercise and ensures a degree of mental stimulation with such ticklish malapropisms as "He's quite a piston," "defoliating" virgins, and (referring to bisexuals) "AM-FM." When Dolly divorces Smackenfelt for Zap Spontini, an advertising man and lousy Sunday painter, Blodgett is rewarded. Smackenfelt marries his aunt-in-law and settles down to an excellent relationship, sexually and otherwise. Ginger pays the bills, leaving the unemployed actor time to sharpen his theatrical skills...
...fair and foul a night London playgoers have seldom seen. Dark, suffocating, nameless terror creeps everywhere. Sounds of shrieking horses and gales of bone-rattling electronic music zap the eardrums. It is the National Theater's production of Macbeth, raising new shudders in the definition of gore, new questions about the existence of the supernatural-and new developments in the black art of scaring up tickets. As Macbeth, Anthony Hopkins is a restless animal, hopelessly possessed, feeding on eerie fears until they devour him. But soft, who is that lady he was seen with? That lady whose steely resolve...
LAST BOOKS READ: The Zap Comic version of War in the Pasture: La Vache Qui Rit meets Elsie. Deep Throated Guernsey. The I Hate to Cook Cookbook, and the New Hampshire Farmers Guide to Better Milk Production in Holsteins...
...crooked doctor. No new adventure hero, it seems, will be admitted to the schedule without an ethnic identity badge. ABC'S Kung Fu is a sort of Fugitive foo yung-a Chinese priest permanently on the lam in the American West of the 1870s, nonviolent but ready to zap troublemakers with the self-defense art of kung fu. The title character of NBC's Banacek (one of three rotating shows in the NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie) is not only a rugged insurance sleuth but also a walking lightning rod for Polish jokes...
...been towed for illegal parking. But when the fuzz checked their files, Ferlinghetti suddenly found himself behind bars on a 1970 charge of selling pornography. As principal owner of the City Lights bookstore, he had been cited as a co-defendant after the clerk was busted for selling Zap Comics. Before the last hearing, though, the clerk was killed in a motorcycle accident. "So," said Ferlinghetti, "I thought the case had been dismissed." Two days later, the case actually was dismissed, leaving the poet free but still fuming. "It was an absurd incident," he declared. "We might sue the city...