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Word: clown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Have a lot of people underestimated George C. Wallace? His adroit performance last week left even the skeptics concerned about his effect on the 1968 election. "If you dismiss him out of hand as a clown in an Uncle Sam suit," said Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "you make a grievous error. He is a tough, competent, shrewd politician who has support within the guts of the American electorate-the low income white voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Support from the Guts | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...absurd and explicit clarity at the play's beginning: "You're going to die in an hour and a half. You're going to die at the end of the play." His name is Berenger -lonesco's Everyman, who was the clerk in Rhinoceros, the clown in The Airborne Pedestrian. With typical lonesco chronology, King Berenger is about 400 years old, but his reign seems to span thousands of years. He is credited with inventing the wheelbarrow, designing the airplane, splitting the atom, and writing Shakespeare's plays. Once decked in splendor, his throne room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Exit the King | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...Moss in a weird menage a trois. At the time, Truffaut was working on Farenheit 451, but he took a week off to teach the writers the grammar of film making, what the camera could see and say. After turning them loose, he then turned them clown because he was still too involved in Farenheit to do the movie with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Shock of Freedom in Films | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...Water clown and trick diver Dick Kimball, coach of the 1964 Olympic diving team, opened the diving exhibition with the Kimball swan dives, gainers, and cutaways that have made him one of the country's leading professional divers. Kimball was accompanied by Ronnie O'Brien, coach of the 1967 U.S. diving team at the Pan American games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Olympians Splash at IAB | 11/21/1967 | See Source »

...first act will be diving and aquatic clowning by Dick Kimball and Ronnie O'Brien. Kimball, a professional diver, coached the U.S. Olympic diving team in 1964. O'Brien, who has been called the world's top water clown, is a three time All-American diver and coach of the American diving team for the 1967 Pan-American games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Olympians Bring Swimming Show Here Tomorrow | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

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