Word: grouches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less emasculated brothers. So Monkey Business from the tacky Paramount days comes as blessed relief, reaffirmation and so on. It is wonderful. This is the one where Groucho, Chico and most importantly Harpo all do imitations of Maurice Chevalier singing "Eef a Nightengale Cood Sin Lak You" and where Grouch announces that "love goes out the door when money comes innuendo". The script was by S.J. Pereiman and it doesn't really matter who directed since it is hardly a film anyway Pereiman apparently won't talk about his Mark experiences anymore--he's quite right. His great work...
...business that came off--the tableau effects during "The criminal cried" were excellent, and the ruffling and unruffling of large gold foil fans during "A More Humane Mikado" nearly stopped the show. And Katisha's new image as an angular, sympathetic giantess instead of a short, fat grouch worked well as one of the few departures from convention among the characterizations...
Women's ace Kerry Melville once asked me, "Aown't yew tayken enoof pictchahs of me, sonny?" at a Slims tourney at Squantum last year. I had been focusing on her for four games in one second-round match, and she was winning. A thin-skinned grouch, Melville has been on the verge of winning major tournaments for years but has never been able to break a final round block against the hierarchy of the game: King and Court...
...accident. She chews gum loudly, eats candy in bed, and constantly chatters about what their life will be like after 50 years of marriage. Lila suffers from a fatal form of Midas disease--everything she touches turns to caricature. She has the knack of making a word like "grouch," her favorite epithet for the uncooperative Lenny, grate on the nerves like fingernails down a blackboard...
...first impressions many visitors get of a city comes from their cabbie, often the kind of grouch who would have honked at Lady Godiva for slowing up traffic. But when a recent visitor to Omaha joked with his driver about the city, he was amazed at the rebuttal: a glowing description of Omaha's waterfront development project along the Missouri River. "You should see the barge traffic going through here now," the driver boasted...