Word: marxes
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...your lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx or Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolts and therefore pile...
...Marx turned Hegel upside down." (GenEd...
...star guest list of TV celebrities troop into the house: Katie Couric, Joan Lunden, Paula Zahn, Faith Daniels, Mary Alice Williams. The scene plays like one of those old I Love Lucy episodes, with the Ricardos in Hollywood. (Look -- it's William Holden! And Harpo Marx!) Actually, it is the most star-studded baby shower in TV history. All these real-life TV newswomen have come to pay tribute to their most famous fictional colleague: Murphy Brown...
...good cigar was an accessory of manly success for at least a century. Prominent puffers included Winston Churchill, Al Capone, Groucho Marx, Jack Kennedy, even Sigmund Freud and Vladimir Lenin. Then came the 1964 Surgeon General's report on the perils of smoking and a sea change in American attitudes toward tobacco that eventually pushed sales into a steady decline. Cigar fans faced not only dirty glares but also signs and waiters telling them to butt out of public places...
...factory (The Naked Gun, Hot Shots!), has updated A Night at the Opera, this time with the anarchic philistinism demolishing a ballet company. But director Dennis Dugan's zanies -- John Turturro, Bob Nelson, Mel Smith -- can't enunciate, and their playing is way too broad; they must think the Marx brothers were Moe, Larry and Curly. Maybe farce always wears out its audience, but it shouldn't wear out its welcome. When Turturro tells some swells, "I bid you all a fond-ue," you may say, "Fond...