Word: marxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HARPO MARX Culver City, Calif...
...Paramount). Groucho is the one with the pointed mustache and glasses who pulls most of the wisecracks. Harpo is the one in the curled peruke whose zany glee is never accompanied by a syllable. Chico is the tough one. Zeppo is handsome and does little. They are the Marxes, the funniest brothers in the U. S. In this adaptation of their musicomedy, a better piece than their first talkie (The Cocoanuts), the plot about a stolen painting is brought scornfully to light once in a while, and then merely to prove that they had a plot to ignore. Romantic songs...
...Shaoqi, named by Mao as President of China, was later dismissed and died in solitary confinement in 1969. Both were posthumously restored to honor in 1981 when they were officially recorded as having been "persecuted to death." They had been brothers in the faith of Mao-Marx-Lenin. But history held truths that overrode Marxism-Leninism as, for example, that suffering is a bond, but power is a drug. And once power was in their hands, the drug addled their minds and together they brought China to the threshold of ruin...
That reputation is built on both its homey atmosphere and fresh beef. Bartley explains. First there are the posters--"Bedtime for Brezhnev," the Marx Brothers, and Humphrey Bogart miniatures. And of course the burgers: for just a few dollars, students can choose between a thick, juicy "General Hospital" (guaranteed to get you hooked); the "Nancy Reagan," served on Bartley's best silver; or an "E.T. Burger" complete with genuine Reese's Pieces...
...dominate the revolutionary posters on the walls, and a large red-lettered slogan in Amharic, Ethiopia's official language, reads FORWARD WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WORKING CLASS PARTY. Not far away, in a flag-bedecked square, a 16-ft.-high red billboard carries the unsmiling trinity of Marx, Engels and Lenin, the new patron saints of the revolution that extinguished a 2,000-year-old monarchy...