Word: trolling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zeppo dropped out of the act. Groucho, Chico and Harpo went on to make eight more films together, becoming precursors of the new American humor. Groucho's flip irrelevancies foreshadowed the theater of the absurd: "I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse." Harpo was a troll bridge between the silents and the talkies. "How can you write for Harpo?" shrugged George S. Kaufman. "All you can say is, 'Harpo enters.' From that point on, he's on his own." Though Chico's accent was an Italian defamation league all to itself...
...most frabjous funnyman in town is Claes Oldenburg, a prematurely balding troll of 38. Among his what's-its on display at the Sidney Janis Gallery are: 1) a 6-ft.-long stuffed-and-sewn canvas loaf of raisin bread, with six detachable slices and 42 removable raisins; 2) a 12-ft.-tall, droopy white canvas "ghost fan" (its mate, a 12-ft.-tall black fan, wilts in mid-air beneath the space capsules at the top of Expo 67's U.S. pavilion); 3) platters bearing real Jell-O and real marzipan molds of the artist...
...Droll Troll. Actually, Allen, 31, defames no one more scandalously than he does himself. He is a droll troll, a neurotic elf, a Freudian slip with legs. His basic problem, he says, is living up to his image of himself as an intellectual Gary Grant, which is not easy "when one is from Flatbush, stands just 51 feet tall, weighs 123 pounds, can't see any too well, and has a head of odd-looking red hair." To compensate, he bites his nails, and when his supply runs out, "I bite the nails of loved ones...
N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). Ofoeti. A modern folk tale about a boy who confuses fantasy and reality when he searches for a troll, that mythological creature who often lives under bridges -he finds him too, and his name is Ofoeti. Under the direction of the American Conservatory Theatre's William Francisco...
...good to him, and so, of course, they were. Giuseppe Siboni, director of the Royal Singing Academy in Copenhagen, took him in off the street to sing at a dinner party, and gave him lessons till his voice broke. The Danish Royal Theater offered him employment as a troll. The King himself, who had read some of his poetry, sent him on a two-year tour of the Continent and granted him 400 rigsdaler a year...