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...It’s a tricky thing to get somebody normal to do crazy things, but I like the contradiction. It’s like the actress in all the Marx Brothers movies. I heard she didn’t get any of the jokes. That comes out in the movies and it worked,” he said...
Many notable European intellectuals regarded America as the epitome of a modernity they feared and scorned, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Sigmund Freud, Frances Trollope to Charles Dickens. There were exceptions, of course. Karl Marx voiced his outspoken support of the Union in its struggle against the Confederacy, and a few social democratic and liberal intellectuals—in the European sense—expressed favorable views of the United States. But on the whole, negative views predominated among Europe’s elites, regardless of country or political conviction...
...technological predictions, it is possible that flASH mobs contain the seeds of a more useful craze when combined with the political and cultural goals of SMart mobs. In these “SMASH mobs,” as one might call them, hundreds of smokers might appear in Groucho Marx noses and glasses and smoke surreptitiously outside City Hall to make a political statement about Boston’s recent ban on smoking in public places. SMASH mobs might also combine fun with social-capital building: hundreds of Cambridge residents might be told to don a funny hat, visit...
...brainchild of songwriters Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, Avenue Q is the kind of place where the word of the day is schadenfreude and five nightstands rearrange themselves into a "one-night stand." Instead of spelling bees and ABCs, the characters, including Princeton, an earnest, clean-cut college grad, and his sometime girlfriend Kate Monster, a kindergarten aide, confront such grownup issues as unemployment, sex and the rent...
...debility, indigence, and mental aberration. My parents used to have me up before nine o'clock in the morning sometimes when I was a boy. If they had let me take my natural rest where would I have been now? Keeping store, no doubt, and respected by all." Groucho Marx, in his memoirs, also picked up the theme. "'Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man you-know-what.' This is a lot of hoopla. Most wealthy people I know like to sleep late, and will fire the help if they are disturbed before three in the afternoon...