Word: buffoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bird form intriguingly suggested a pigeon in a jato takeoff. Pablo Picasso's heavy-handled vase embossed with a red-and-black cartoon face (Burlesco) was good fun. And Italy's Renato Guttuso. who designed a pitcher shaped like the face of a snarling, shark-toothed buffoon, happily wedded design and medium...
Mussolini, by Paolo Monelli. A sharp likeness that makes the would-be Caesar look like a buffoon (TIME...
...Chaplinesque plot begins very slowly with an ex-convict deprived of employment and his passport. Desperate, the little man buys a Captain's uniform, storms into Koepenick, and seizes the Town Hall. Always jibing at stuffy authoritarian, the ersatz Captain imprisons even Mayor Obermculler, a stout buffoon played by Max Guelstorff. The mayor knows nothing of his offense, but there can be no injustice under Germany's martial law and order. He salutes and plods to jail...
...fairly wise man once stated the difference between a comedian and a mere buffoon--the comic's humor is methodically pointed while the buffoon will do anything, to provoke a laugh, usually with little success. All this leads up to the thesis that after months of waving his lance through the air with little purpose, Lampy has finally found a good, solid chunk of meat to pierce. The result of his galloping attack on the movie industry is by no means a brilliant satire; yet it is well above the usual Lampoon fare and, on the whole, an amusing collection...
...Farouk, after all, more than a royal buffoon? The U.S. has good reason to hope that he is. Farouk may turn out to be the decisive figure in one of the world's decisive areas...