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Word: harpo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Czech New Wave | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 28, 1967 | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: HENRY R. LUCE: End of a Pilgrimage | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: Triviaddiction | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Reaching into the Future | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

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