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...right, knock off the snickers. This is going to be done straight. Larry Harmon, 59, better known as Bozo, "the world's most famous clown," was in Washington, D.C., last week to announce he is a candidate for the U.S. presidency. "I'm wearing glasses because they make me look a little more like a statesman than I already do," said Harmon, who is running in full regalia on the Bozo Party ticket. The native of Toledo, who started on TV some 35 years ago, claims that he got a hankering for the nation's highest office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...acting debut, if one doesn't count the House's televised debates, O'Neill is hunched over the bar when George Wendt, 34 (the Speaker's favorite character in the series), plunks down beside him and heaves into a tirade on Washington. "This bozo right here next to me could probably be a better Congressman than those guys in Congress," says Wendt. Add laugh track. And so the line between show biz and politics blurs further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 31, 1983 | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

Norm, not realizing that O'Neill is the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, says, "This bozo next to me could do better than that bunch of bums...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cheer'ful Debut for House Speaker O'Neill | 1/19/1983 | See Source »

When Claus von Billow appeared in Newport, R.I., last week to hear himself sentenced to 30 years in prison, he had a new lawyer on his team, a slight, bespectacled fellow with reddish brown, frizzy hair, seen by some as a cross between Woody Allen and Bozo the Clown. But Von Bülow knows that Alan Dershowitz, 43, is no joke. He got the Harvard law professor out of bed at 7 a.m. six weeks ago to ask him to handle his appeal. Why Dershowitz? To be sure, he is smart, energetic and an expert in criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Lawyer of Last Resort | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...does not help this 90-minute intermissionless drama that most key crises in Frances' life happen offstage or that so much time is spent with peripheral characters about whom one could not care less. The language bruises the ear, ricocheting between period brassiness ("There's one slick bozo," "There's this bimbo there givin' me the glad eye") to sorry flights of pseudopoetic home truths. On the other hand, the nickelodeon-like music of Claibe Richardson tickles the ear. Apart from Dunaway, the only one who threatens to run away with the show is Designer John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Nostalgia Nut | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

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