Word: grouchos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eliot begged him for an autographed picture. Thornton Wilder found him sequestered in Finnegans Wake.* The first man on the moon mimicked his fluid slouch. Clearly, Groucho Marx is a man of parts, and eight of those parts are preserved in this collection of uncritical, oversized photographs and classic film routines...
...Duck? divides a genre into four cavorters: Zeppo, once charitably labeled the Good Looking One; Harpo, Rumpelstiltskin with mild satyriasis; Chico, the Italian Defamation League; and the great, nay immoral Groucho. Under his pun-fulfilled guidance the boys carom delightfully from the primitive surrealism of The Cocoanuts on beyond that neglected antiwar pageant Duck Soup, to the classic double bill, A Day At The Races and A Night At The Opera...
...meanings of the parables themselves are lost as the audience concentrates instead on the imitations--Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Shirley Temple and Donald Duck are numbered among this lord's disciples--and the song and dance routines. There is a soft-shoe number (Christ and Judas singing "All for the Best"), a Simon-and-Garfunkeler ("On the Willow," a hymn to crucifixion), and a nice example of that newest of song-types, revival rock ("Day by Day.") Although most of Stephen Schwartz's songs are interchangeable, Godspell avoids the free-formlessness of Hair. From the sight gags to the pantomimes...
...Okay, Groucho. As Thompson presents them, DeBakey and Cooley each possess a politician's cunning and a financier's wizardry. Both are men of great physical dexterity and enormous ego, disciplined and unforgiving. One Houston pediatric surgeon said of them: "You take these guys out of surgery and put them in business or industry, and they'd be Ross Perot or Bernie Cornfeld. Wait, make that Tom Watson or Henry Ford...
...best heart-cutter in the world and nobody outside the medical societies knew his name." Another hospital official added: "Basically it was the incompatibility of two enormous egos. One day after some bickering over something, Denton said in a quiet little voice that hardly anybody heard. 'Okay. Groucho. have it your way!' Mike had a mustache then and looked a little like Groucho Marx. And Denton left and went across the way and. in effect, never came back...