Word: buffoon
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...There are few youngsters among Dixielanders any more. Star of the Metropole is a portly, weather-beaten trumpeter named Henry ("Red") Allen, 47, a man of long experience in the New Orleans school and an uninhibited buffoon. To get things warmed up, he raps out either Shake a Hand (everybody shakes a hand) or an insistent Kiss Your Baby (if there is no one to kiss unescorted women, a waiter may do the honors). Other numbers include such oldtime favorites as I Thought I Heard Benny Bolden Say, Trees, Memphis Blues, Basin Street...
While the children face frustration at every turn, the role of the adults is characterized by the words "too late." The murdered boy's father, a bumbling buffoon in an alcoholic fog, repents the ill treatment he has given his son only after the son has been murdered. Pedro's heartless mother, once repented, passes unknowingly by the mule on which her son's body is being carried away to the garbage heap...
...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...