Word: groucho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...size of the handicap varies widely from club to club. At one extreme, members of Los Angeles' Hillcrest Country Club (whose ranks include Jack Benny, George Burns and Groucho Marx) learned several years ago that oil had been discovered on their land; the club has no problems with membership turnover. Members, who have shares in the club, collect tax-sheltered dividends on their original initiation fees, and "B.O." (for "before oil") memberships have become so valuable that they are willed from father...
...exits, that only a well-disciplined company can hope to make sense (or nonsense) of them. The High Tor Company does remarkably well at meeting the requirements of Feydeau. Jeffrey Peters as Bois-D'Enghien, the protagonist who loves too wisely and too much, carries himself like a sophisticated Groucho Marx. Rocco Piccolomini as the General is a fine old fashioned zany with a phony moustache and a phony accent to match, both of which contribute immeasurably to his persona, as he and the posturing poetaster Bouzin (Michael Baird) flutter like moths around the corona of the coquette, Lucette (Elsie...
...Woody says. "If you ask me who are my heroes, the answer is simple and truthful: George S. Kaufman and the Marx Brothers." In Play It Again, Sam, they are all over the screen; yet somehow Woody's strabismic vision always remains completely his own. Even Groucho Marx declares, "They say Allen got something from the Marx Brothers. He didn't. He's an original. The best. The funniest...
...dozen comedies and musicals, including You Can't Take It With You, Of Thee I Sing and Silk Stockings. His career as a critic, playwright and director spanned nearly 40 years, and his influence was enormous. Brooks Atkinson credited Kaufman with making the wisecrack part of our language. Groucho Marx claimed that "Kaufman gave me the walk and the talk...
Yugoslavia is sometimes described as 100% Marxist-50% Karl and 50% Groucho. Although it is Communist, it maintains a market economy that is based on competition between state-owned but individually run companies. That zany-sounding blend of socialism and free enterprise has given the 20.5 million Yugoslavs the fastest growing economy in Eastern Europe. In major cities, modern, wide-windowed apartment complexes dot the skyline, autos clog the streets and stores are stocked with television sets, radios and kitchen appliances. Lately, however, the system has developed enough problems to bring the nation to a crossroad at which its leaders...