Word: mop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Toole, also treading very lightly as a debonair art-world detective whom Audrey has mistaken for a fellow burglar. Together they hurdle a large chunk of plot by stealing a marble Cellini nude from a Paris art museum, armed only with a magnet, a boomerang and a mop bucket...
...wrong number and soon has Elke bathing at his remote woodland cottage. "The biggest thing in bathtubs since rings," he says, snatching every conversational gambit from a store of one-line gags that often sound like a prelude to a friendly word from his sponsor. As Hope's mop-topped maid, Phyllis cleans up the house, dirties up the jokes, and delivers her own brand of kitcheny self-deprecation. There is never the slightest doubt that her next job will be a sell-out nightclub engagement in Vegas, and any viewer who thinks that's funny...
...elderly woman who lived near Candlestick Park. "Mama" Johnson took Marichal and Matty Alou into her home as boarders, force-fed them English, lectured them on "Getting Along in America." "If we didn't pay attention to what she said," recalls Alou, "she'd grab her dish mop and give us a swat. She'd tell us, 'You want to make good in this country, you learn to speak English. Nobody makes shaving commercials in Spanish.' " Lonely and homesick, Marichal played Dominican records over and over by the hour. "Finally I had to smash them...
...stage movement works best in small, humorous scenes like the early one of the itching, scratching, sneezing, retching freeloaders in Shen Te's tobacco store, and in the finale when a congregation of riffraff salutes the gods with raised mop as the "illustrious ones" fly away on a winch-raised cloud...
...found Matisse "cold, aloof and difficult to deal with," but bought more than 35 of his works. Chagall delighted her; she found him "an electric eel of a man with bright eyes and an unruly mop of hair." Helena purchased six gouaches by him. In 1942 she outfitted the cardroom of her New York apartment with three Dali murals depicting Morning, Noon and Night. Flushed with success, Dali next wanted to do a fountain spouting from a piano suspended from the ceiling. "That," he said, "is the essence of surrealism." For once Madame said...