Marx, Groucho (1890-1977)
The third-born of the performing Marx Brothers, Julius "Groucho" Marx made the most profound contributions to American comedy. His wisecracking stage persona ha...
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Marriage is an institution, but as Groucho Marx famously asked,
who wants to live in an institution? Most people, it would appear.
From high-tech arranged marriages ...
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“It’d be like calling Groucho Marx anti-mustache,†the best-selling author Michael Chabon said of recent criticism in the New York Post that he an...
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Today is Sunday, Aug. 19, the 231st day of 2007. There are 134 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 19, 1812, the USS Constitution defeated the British frigate Guerriere off N...
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A high school art teacher fired after officials learned he moonlighted by creating paintings using his bare buttocks and other body parts sued his former employers on Thursday.Stephen Murmer was fi...
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1: Before the GagsThe brothers started out as a singing act called the Nightingales. They later changed to comedy when they realised audiences preferred their comic banter to their songs.2: The Oth...
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When all else fails, music always saves the day. In her fifth engagement at the swanky Algonquin Oak Room, veteran song stylist Sandy Stewart eschews the corny patter, loud twinkle gowns and “...
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Simon Rattle stood in front of the Berlin Philharmonic, stretched across in front of the United Palace Theater's stage, and he towered above as if he were a mop-topped giraffe.Instead of playing at...
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Ms. Schelmetic,I wanted to drop a note thanking you for the plug in your "Last Call" ["Clean Up In The Self-Service Aisle," May 2005] editorial for the need for more and better testing of self-serv...
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Recently, I met a man at a bar who asked me what I did. Not in the mood to split hairs over whether he meant “money” work or inner calling, I answered, apparently slurring heavily: R...
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Recently, I met a man at a bar who asked me what I did. Not in the mood to split hairs over whether he meant “money” work or inner calling, I answered, apparently slurring heavily: ...
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Marx, Groucho (1890-1977)
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