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...What's it all mean, Mr. Natural?" "Don't mean shit, boy."--Zap Comix...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Resticball: Wondering What's It All Mean, Joe? | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

Smackenfelt's wall. Seeing Zap's raw splotches through a window, the police spread the word that the house has been vandalized. Rather than have Zap hurt by the truth, Smackenfelt wrecks his own house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Maternal Triangle | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Maternal Triangle | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...most chivalrous act is to spare the feelings of Zap Spontini, who has painted an abstract mural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Maternal Triangle | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Who Is That Lady? | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

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