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SOMEBODY IN the Mudhead Masks acting troupe designs a mean papier-mache horsehead, but he neglected to make sure the horse's socks matched. As a result, Dan Rice's Wife Maggie's Incredible Educated Horse, as it capers about reading the hour off Dan's gold watch, displays a pair of red socks, a pair of lavender, and a pair of polka-dot. Not exactly your prime specimen of pre-Civil War humor...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Stars and Stripes | 2/9/1982 | See Source »

...Zucker does, after all, occasionally have to go offstage to take a breather. Why does that silly papier-mache horsehead keep bounding up to the audience? Why is one fellow sitting on a straw-stack on the edge of the stage, strumming an unidentifiable instrument and looking so mellow that spectators two rows back started betting on when he would fall asleep? Why does Dr. Paradisio (Tamara Jenkins) keep screaming at both real and imaginary audiences about the healing powers of ga-a-a-a-arglin' oil? Why on earth does one actress spend a full half-hour...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Stars and Stripes | 2/9/1982 | See Source »

...sell the average U.S. male something he had always skittered away from buying-a line of for-men-only cosmetics, ranging from perfumes to bubble baths. In the nation's stores, bashful men fingered flashy bureau and bath sets, shaped like whiskey bottles, perfume bottles sporting horsehead corks, pictures of big game. One Midwest manufacturer crowed over a solid gold shaving bowl worth $1,875, without the soap. ("Boy, that's luxury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: For Men Only | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...Then Edward the Chief Ruler and John and another Edward (not the chief) and Stephen and Belcher and Simeon and Thomas, surnamed Horsehead, and Andrew and Joseph consulted together and said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAD BUTTER IN UNIVERSITY COMMONS CAUSED "GREAT REBELLION OF 1776" | 3/12/1926 | See Source »

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