Word: moochers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poet Thomas ever published, Author Constantine FitzGibbon demonstrates with vivid detail that the reality sometimes outdid the legend. As a longtime friend of Dylan's, FitzGibbon is painfully aware of the flaws in his subject's character. Dylan, he says flatly, was a slob, a liar, a moocher, a thief, a two-fisted boozefighter, a puffy Priapus who regularly assaulted the wives of his best friends, an icy little hedonist who indifferently lived it up while his children went hungry. Yet at the same time, says Friend FitzGibbon, Dylan was generous, kind, charming and stupendously witty, a genius...
Kaye's best are still his standards, the git-gat-gittle song like Minnie the Moocher and Ludwig von Shtickfritz; no one but the D'Oyly Carte's Martyn Green has ever pattered half so perfectly. Though he laces his act with impossible puns and games ("That's the way De Gaulle bounces," or "Under the spreading psychiatry"), nothing diminishes the pure delight of his tour in a thousand dialects through the world's locker rooms, or his Begin the Beguine as sung by a matinee idol who can do everything but carry a tune...