Word: buffooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCurdy, like Joe Namath, knows that when cockiness is defeated, one looks like a buffoon. It would be a mistake to expect him to take unnecessary chances...
...consummately awful as this. He allows Reed to sway and scowl across the screen like an English Jack Palance, while Michael J. Pollard, as the benighted guerrilla chief, quickly exhausts his repertoire of puckish expressions. Since he attracted attention in Bonnie and Clyde, Pollard has turned into a mumbling buffoon whose limited talents are perfectly in harmony with the selfconscious, self-indulgent, elephantine whimsy of Hannibal Brooks...
Someone offstage is pronounced guilty of a series of unintelligible crimes, and in marches the prisoner, to be thrust into his cell by a buffoon of a turnkey with baggy pantaloons and clown makeup. Suddenly the two of them are waltzing around the cell together to appropriate music. The whole play is like that-sudden and senseless as a dream...
...charisma. Great music is only half of successful rock personalities. The other half is knowing how to act like a celebrity. This is because the hip audience doesn't want somebody who's just a good performer, like Elvis or Little Richard: that conjures up images of a mindless buffoon in a sequined jacket falling on his knees or miming copulation onstage, and everyone knows that that's stupid. Of course, if you fall on your knees and copulate with your guitar, and let it be known that you are hip, well, that's okay. Third-rate musicians and thinkers...
...Night They Raided Minsky's is a valedictory valentine to oldtime burlesque. In legend, the girls were glamorous, and every baggy-pants buffoon was a second W. C. Fields. In truth, the institution was as coarse as its audiences. Minsky's mixes both fact and fancy in a surprisingly successful musical...