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While Marx was preoccupied with economic class, he never understood English society, which has been ruled by social class.
Ten interpreters stepped from behind the throne.The English one at last explained the Holy FatherHad urged us all to wear seatbelts while driving.My heart sank at its plain good sense, as hymnsEchoed and golden canopies enfolded the pope,How like home it seemed, with my own fatherA preoccupied patriarch of practicalityWhen what was wanted veered wildly betweenThe gruff headmaster and the drunken playwright.Instead, I got the distant advertising salesman,The suburban dad of what turned out to be my dreams ...
," "Metabolife's Lawyer Assures C'box He Won't Sue," and "Round One: ABC News 1, Metabolife 0.") But when the hour arrived, Chatterbox, having spent a pleasant evening 'round the hearth with Pappy and Mammy Chatterbox--who were visiting from California--was preoccupied, along with Mrs. Chatterbox, by the somewhat arduous task of tucking the Chatterkinder snugly into their beds.
I'm too preoccupied, too panicked.
As a writer and director, he has been less preoccupied with gags than with the fear and helplessness out of which they spring.