Word: grouchos
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...flip side is to denigrate what we have, a variation on Groucho Marx's refusal to belong to any club with such low standards that it would have him for a member. Abraham Lincoln in 1860 entered polite America's imagination cartooned as an ungainly ape, an uncouth backwoods savage. In the 1932 election campaign, even some liberals appraised Franklin Roosevelt as a feckless mama's boy from the silver-spoon Hudson River gentry, a man without character or principles. "An amiable Boy Scout," wrote Walter Lippman...
...political rhetoric in front of the jury, like Johnnie Cochran's urging them to "send a message" about racist misconduct. This sort of jury nullification, wrote syndicated columnist George Will, in which the panel is motivated by something other than the particulars of the case, amounts to "approximately what Groucho Marx said in the movie Duck Soup: 'Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?'" Legal scholar Kamisar notes that juries now and then will use latitude to ignore law and free a defendant on principle, "but as a general proposition, you can't tell them when they...
...Arab pre-teens in Bye-Bye, set in Marseilles, the only moral imperative is to stay alive. In another French drama, Le Plus Bel Age ... (Those Were the Days), middle-class students indulge in sadistic occult rituals. The film's gruesome hazing scene suggests a twist on the famous Groucho Marx line: I wouldn't want to join any club that would have me dismembered...
...themselves to the radio audience. "I'm George, and I play a guitar," etc. Then the Beatles' leader speaks: "I'm John, and I too play a guitar. Sometimes I play the fool." In the beginning, John Lennon was the group's soul and wit, its Elvis and its Groucho. But unlike Elvis, the early Beatles had the quick, larky humor of kids assured enough to make fun of themselves and everyone else. And unlike the Marx Brothers, these were no anarchists -- they were many a mother's daydream of the pop star her daughter might bring home...
...offer his views on the Administration's new economic plan, he told Clinton . that the plan was dumb and would sink his presidency. Three months later, the Texas Congressman called Hillary Clinton a Marxist. He apologized -- and then promised to restrict his Marxist comparisons of the Clintons to Groucho, not Karl...