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Talking pictures were barely a year old when anarchy broke loose at the movies. At the start of The Cocoanuts, Groucho Marx stalked down the steps in his Neanderthal slouch and spat out a flood of puns and insults. It was a new cinema art: rude descending a staircase...
...things you said were up to me, and then accused me of trying to fuck it up.” She opts for a more straight-forward, nearly spoken representation of the word, and her straight-forwardness is what makes this so sexy. Like every girlfriend who ever spat this out at you, Phair’s usage of so strong an oath resounds with sincerity and necessity, and makes her other uses just seem...egregious...
...Norman writes that “even [West] isn’t above settling old scores as he lays out a blueprint for a more progressive politics of engagement,” and the 11 pages that rehash West’s version of his notorious spat with Summers bear this out as fact...
...said he began drinking whiskey after the spat with Abreu, adding that he was “feeling mellow” by the time of the row with Pring-Wilson...
DENISE SEEGAL Brand Fashioner In October, Seegal, 50, takes the rudder at Nautica, the sportswear line owned by VF Corp. since 2003. After quitting Liz Claiborne in 2000 because of a spat with the CEO, Seegal went to Jennifer Lopez's clothing company, Sweetface Fashion; she boosted sales to about $250 million last year by expanding licensing deals to such categories as jewelry and shoes. Now Seegal must steer Nautica, which has struggled with weak sales and an inconsistent image, to calmer seas...