Word: harpo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daisies is a hippie's pipe dream that looks and sounds like something concocted by a den member of America's own underground cinema clique. Made with Marxism far less than Harpo, the film is not about anything except itself. Two teen-age girls, labeled Marie I and Marie II (Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbonová), live like dolls, chattering and giggling, floundering about in their oversized bed, making a shambles of sets and sense. In scenes suffused with unearthly tints and shades, the girls attack each other with scissors and cut off each other...
...Harpo and Chico have passed away, and Gummo stayed home in California. But the whole wonderful family was there on film as Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art unreeled a three-week retrospective devoted to the Marx Brothers' comedies. Groucho, 71, now a distinguished man of letters with the publication this month of his correspondence, still looked very much like Hugo Z. Hackenbush or Wolf J. Flywheel when he dropped by for a night in the theater with his wife Eden, his brother Zeppo, 66, and Mrs. Zeppo, Barbara Marx. After watching himself lope through...
...copies of Time Inc.'s four major magazines?TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED?and their international editions. * Newspaper obituaries parroted a quote from an unnamed "friend" of Luce: "He is a dreamer, with a keen sense of double-entry bookkeeping." In fact, the remark was used by Harpo Marx to describe Alexander Woollcott...
Misspent Youth. To their amusement, only Pennsylvania could recall the famous 1946 Ajax song ("Use Ajax, bumm, bumm, the foaming cleanser . . . "). To the question, "What flavor ice cream did Harpo Marx sell in A Day at the Races", the judges ruled out Princeton's "tutti-frutti" for Yale's more colorful and accurate "tootsi-frootsi...
...several controversial Administration proposals, expressed the opposition's reaction in characteristically flamboyant prose last week: "The Administration goes its higgledy-piggledy way; its high priests are no longer the flower of American culture but skilled political salesmen who pursue domestic social programs with the popeyed ardor of a Harpo Marx chasing blondes...