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Word: nerdish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weird variants of Groucho Marx, perhaps spawned by Michaels' boyhood watching the Yiddish theater: wise guys who fast-talk on capitalist society's turf and win. In "Reflections of a Wild Kid," Michaels's persona makes it with an ex-girlfriend by removing the woman's present boyfriend, a nerdish college professor. The persona's method: piss out the window of the woman's apartment, hide in the closet and let the police seize the wrong man--the boyfriend--when they come around. Michaels describes this as "genius...

Author: By Jim Kaplan, | Title: Empty Victories | 11/1/1975 | See Source »

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