Word: parlorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cockney peer, was originally a star turn for Lupino Lane, a comic mime of the '30s. Lindsay, seen in the U.S. as Edmund in Laurence Olivier's TV King Lear, proves an inspired successor. He has mastered the stereotypical Cockney's accusatory inflections, rough humor, feral grace and odd parlor tricks, from a no-hands bobbing of his hat on his head to incessant, playful swiping of a bystander's gold watch. He brings vitality to such shopworn comedy as passing out, being revived and protesting, "Here! I didn't faint for water." In a leaning-on-a-lamppost number...
Everyone calls Marguerite Hanusa "Marge," and everyone who is anyone in the high plains Montana town of Choteau comes to Marge's adult piano and organ recital every year about this time. She holds it in the parlor of her house, where she has a Story & Clark upright, a Steinway baby grand and a two-tiered Conn with a full footboard. The first townspeople to show up get to sit on folding chairs from the Methodist and Lutheran churches; the tardy in the audience must make do with the staircase and the floor. After the music the party moves into...
...practicing. He had a Valium. Then he called the doctor. Then he had three more Valium and two double shots." As show time neared, this musician stepped out the kitchen door to relieve himself. Marge had to stop the proceedings and find him and lead him into the parlor. He played Home on the Range twelve times. Marge hissed from the kitchen, "Get to the end!" The man whined, "I passed it." Marge came out and put her arm around him. "I finally just led him off. They couldn't wake him up till 4 the next afternoon...
...guessing about who will succeed Kadar is Budapest's premier parlor game, encouraged by Kadar himself, who like any astute manager knows that prematurely designating a successor causes nothing but trouble for both boss and heir. Karoly Nemeth, 63, is his second in command in the party hierarchy and presumably a contender, though Kadar slyly enjoys appearances that deceive. Other possible candidates: Ferenc Havasi, 57, a chief economic official, who is said to believe that unemployment should be officially recognized; Karoly Grosz, 57, a Kadar disciple; Propaganda Boss Janos Berecz, 57; and Foreign Affairs Specialist Matyas Szuros...
...remembers. "No shoes, no socks. The curtain wasn't all the way down, and just before we were about to begin, I heard my mother say, 'I think those are his feet.' " Still, it was not until after a stint as "Mr. Danny" in his sister Angie's beauty parlor ("I once did 35 heads on a New Year's Eve") that he enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts to study makeup and picked up acting, fencing and mime as well. The response of DeVito's father to the news of this career move came as a shock...