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Part four, of four, of an article about Groucho Marx, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of his death.

Here is a final YouTube clip, also featuring Groucho as Captain Spaulding in "Animal Crackers": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPSAu8xfmhk. This scene also makes fun of a technique used in the Eugene O'Neill play "Strange Interlude."

Below is a link to the full article, and a glossary for the sixth and seventh paragraphs of the article.

ARTICLE:

Hoy se cumplen 35 años sin uno de los cómicos más representativos del siglo XX y que llenó de ingenio el cine

Today marks 35 years without one of the most representative comedians of the 20th century, who filled the cinema with ingenuity

(See full article at: http://www.huelvainformacion.es/article/ocio/1333310/humor/surrealismo.html)

GLOSSARY (for sixth and seventh paragraphs)

70	"setenta"; los 70 = the 70s
1975	"mil novecientos setenta y cinco"
a	to
académicas	academic
adiós	good bye
admiración	admiration
afirmar	asserting
al	to the
Allen	Woody Allen (director, humorist)
aniversario	anniversary
casi	almost
cierto	true, certain
cine	movies
clara	clear
comicidad	comicalness
cómico	comic
con	with
continúa	(it) continues
contribución	contribution
cuestionó	se cuestionó = (he) asked himself
Dalí	Salvador Dalí (surrealist artist)
de	of, from
décadas	decades
decía	(he) said
del	of the
descaro	impudence
después de	after
desternillante	hilarious, side-splitting
deuda	debt
día	day
disco	record
el	the
él	him
en	at, in
entonces	then; "por entonces" = in those days
era	(it) was, (he) was
es	(it) is

genio	genius
grupo	group
ha	(it) has
habría de	(I) should
hacían	(they) did
hecho	done
hermanos	brothers
hola	hello
hombre	man
humor	humor
humorista	humorist
influencia	influence
ingenio	ingenuity
instituciones	institutions
inteligente	intelligent
joven	young
la	the
las	the
libro	book
llegó a	(he) ended up
lo	that, lo cierto = what is true
los	the
Marx	Marx
marxiana	Marxist
más de	more than
mí	me
muerte	death
musical	musical
mutua	mutual
neumonía	pneumonia
no	not
noche	night
ópera	opera
otras	other
película	movie
pena	trouble
periódicos	newspapers

pero	but
por	around, from, about, for
por qué	why
posteridad	posterity
preocupado	se ha preocupado por = (it) has concerned itself about
preocuparme por	worry (myself) about
publicaciones	publilcations
publicado	published
pues	because, since
que	that, which, who
qué	what
Queen	Queen (rock group)
recoge	(it) records
reconocimiento	recognition
recuerdan	(they) remember
revistas	magazines
risas	laughs
según	as, according to
sí	indeed
siempre	always
sólo	only
su	his
sucumbieron	(they) succumbed
surrealista	surrealist
tiene	(it) has
tituló	(it) titled
tras	after
tres	three
un	one, an
una	a
único	only
valía	(he) was worth
veintena	score (20)
vigente	(being) current
visionado	viewing
y	and

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