Word: zzzz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adults, the Z picture stands for zzzz, but for teenagers, it's strictly zowie. It goes with such titles as The Brain Eaters, The Bucket of Blood and Little Shop of Horrors (which was filmed in a record two days on a starvation budget of $37,000). A.I.P.'s classic horror title was I Was a Teenage Werewolf, which caused traffic jams at drive-in theaters and earned $2,000,000. Similarly, A.I.P. has made quick killings on bargain-basement Biblicals (Goliath and the Barbarians, Goliath and the Sins of Babylon), on way-outer spaces (Angry Red Planet...
Also represented: Sotadic verses, pangrammatic rubaiyat and problems in alphametics (alphabet arithmetic). They are all wonderfully ingenious and entertaining, and so is Author Borgmann, who dazzles right down to the last word - which happens to be a palindrome: ZZZZ. But the last word really belongs to the readers, and it will doubtless be another palindrome...