Word: goldbergiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story is enough to make a mystery fan throw up his hands in abject despair. It concerns a psychic convict fresh from taking the tap for a rich, buccaueering and, of all things, the rich man's murder. There's a nifty bit of Rube Goldbergiana concerning the firing of a pistol, but otherwise the film ends with very little clarification of anything save the fact that Nick Charles leads a very merry married life. However, the conversation sparkles at frequent intervals and Myrna Loy wears a negligee now and then for a man's money this is enough...
Most famed of all Goldbergiana are his lunatic inventions. These preposterous drawings were first inspired by memories of complicated scientific apparatus which Rube Goldberg, in his days as an engineering student at the University of California, was unable to take seriously. To demonstrate his mad machines, Goldberg invented Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts. Examples...
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