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This theme finds its most complete expression in the concluding dialogue, as Terry wonders whether Kathy, his dartboard and punching-bag, will throw...
This is a dartboard of a spoof concerning all things theatrical. There are probably enough unemployed actors in Actors' Equity alone to keep off-Broadway's Village Gate comfortably tilled for some time to come. But it does not require that much stage expertise to relish the show. Any halfway knowledgeable theatergoer will find it thoroughly diverting in its breezy mixture of barbed sense and absurdist nonsense...
...wrong and disrespectful to put any elected official on a dart board. But I think it's rather interesting that he says I'm in the public domain, but that he apparently considers himself out of the public domain, because his lawyers are now threatening the dartboard company...
...Manhattan's Doyle Dane Bernbach, which had been working on the Humphrey campaign since last May, the dartboard pitch had real impact. To the Humphrey people, it seemed more like subliminal sabotage. DDB dutifully went back to its storyboards, but not for long. Democratic Campaign Manager Larry O'Brien fired DDB, abruptly dumping the shop whose wry, whimsical ad techniques (Avis, Volkswagen) had worked so well for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Humphrey's people called in Campaign Planners, a group formed largely of staffers from Lennen & Newell, the nation's 14th largest agency...
Rattle of a Simple Man. "Have ye got a dartboard?" asks the scoutmaster from Manchester. There are no tiddlywinks at hand, and the London prostitute with whom he is spending the night to win a ?50 bet on his virility has grown weary of ticktacktoe. "You're not oldfashioned, darling," she coos at last. "You're unbelievable...