Word: marxes
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...message (remember: "Survivor" did no harm on Thursday night! None!) that bespoke the nervousness throughout the industry about the soft ad market. Execs invoked the golden days of big-network television, reaching a ludicrous apex when West Coast president Scott Sassa likened "Weakest Link" host Anne Robinson to Groucho Marx. At times, NBC's pageant of self-butt-kissing even contradicted itself, as when Zucker's old "Today" colleagues came on stage and talked about his leaving their show to "save the network." Wait a minute - wasn't the message that the network never needed saving? Didn't they...
...fantasy language of film, it was the most natural thing for a fella and a gal to burst into song. Just about everybody sang: Cagney, Gable, the Marx Brothers, every cowboy from Gene Autry to John Wayne. And when the stars didn't sing, they danced. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers not only taught the nation new steps but, dancing cheek to cheek, they put love in motion. They defined la belle, la perfectly swell romance...
...capitalist-roaders" have won the day, and communism is but the fading red label on a gerontocratic regime locked in a desperate battle with the market forces it had itself unleashed in the era of Deng Xiaoping. The regime's message to the people is not about Mao and Marx but about money vs. might: enrich yourselves, but leave the driving...
...63rd year of its existence, the Lowell House Opera (LHO) presents a very ambitious staging of Puccini’s classic La Bohème. Working under the aegis of the 18th century German philosopher, poet and philologist Friedrich Nietzsche, LHO’s production hopes to prove Marx wrong in his belief that “everything enters history only twice: first as tragedy, then as farce.” La Bohème explores Nietzsche’s proposed third entrance into history: irony...
...white, adult-oriented, "underground" comic books. The appearance of these books coincided with an entire cultural atmosphere of rebellion and self-declaration that encouraged such renaming. Even the choice of the "x" over "ks," for example, seems tied in with the radicalism of Malcolm X and resurgence of Karl Marx...