Word: grouchos
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...times it seemed more like a Shriners' convention. I especially remember getting to know an elderly woman who was so fabulous, I couldn't believe we were related. (Later I learned we weren't.) Best of all, I found that some of my most obvious flaws, like my Groucho Marx eyebrows and perennial bad attitude, clearly are genetic. I shared this observation with a similarly afflicted cousin, and we both admitted that we felt relieved...
...unfair. He had many achievements." The latest piece of Nixonmania is Dick, a movie of the absurd in which two teenage girls are Deep Throat, the long-dead Nixon dog Checkers is transposed to the White House and detests his President, G. Gordon Liddy looks like a yuppie Groucho Marx, and Pat Nixon snores like a truckdriver...
...Kapur doesn't help much, filming the young royal in pastel gowns with a bevy of handmaidens and a robust beau, prancing giddily in some absurdly verdant corner of the English countryside. This is the Virgin Queen before she was a virgin (to quote the preeminent Elizabethan scholar Groucho Marx)--and if this preposterous rapture is the best the film can do, one can't help but long for more chiaroscuro conspiracies and bloody assassinations...
...talk but I hate to interrupt Groucho. I spoke in public last year in Portland when I asked for a raise in salary but I don't think anyone heard me. I make a practice of speaking every time Chico makes a grand slam, so you can look for another speech in 1937. Regret I can't get Zeppo in this wire. HARPO MARX Culver City, Calif...
...flaw of disloyalty, to his wife and to others. I have always wondered why a man famous for F.O.B.s treated them so badly, and my guess is that he thinks there must be something wrong with anyone who would be loyal to him--a pathetic version of Groucho's joke about club membership--so he doesn't believe in loyalty any more than he believes in love. On the other hand, he has great faith in rejection, having experienced it when it counted most, thus he seeks and rejects simultaneously...