Word: clown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CLOWN ON FIRE by Aaron Judah. 211 pages. Dial...
Please Be My Guru. The part of Clown on Fire that really kills me is Joe trying to find himself. I mean he looks all over India. That's because he's depressed as hell about life and how hard it is to make meaningful relationships with people! It knocks me out the way he's always asking people, "Will you be my guru?" I know it sounds like one of those windy New Yorker stories about sensitive teen-agers growing up in India wearing pith helmets instead of red hunting hats. But Joe is telling...
...once famous dog Checkers is recalled in Richard Nixon's checkered silks. As for Ronald Reagan's polka dots, Democrat Conrad says in a frankly partisan spirit that they represent a clown's suit-or, to put it more politely, theatrical attire. George Romney and Nelson Rockefeller are done in "recessive" blue; that is not a political assessment, but only Conrad's way of pushing them back in the perspective of the picture. And the red and white stripes on Percy? Replies the artist, who may possibly have more political savvy than he realizes: "This just...
...Mahan was thrown by a bull, which then stepped on his jaw and broke it in five places. He has since had a face bone shattered, a rib broken and three vertebrae cracked. Last week in Phoenix, a bull threw him alongside a metal barrel in which a rodeo clown was hiding, then turned, charged, missed Mahan by a hair, but caught the barrel and butted its 300-lb. weight 6 ft. into the air. The clown was lucky to escape with only minor injuries. It was a close call for all concerned. "I consider myself fortunate," says Mahan...
...responsible positions in the army. Elon concedes that no people can go on feeling guilty forever; still, he is pained at the philistinism he finds among West German politicians, who seem determined to blank out the past. But he admires the attitude expressed by Catholic Writer Heinrich Boll (The Clown). "The sum of suffering was too great," says Boll, "to attribute it to the few who were un equivocally guilty; a part remained and has not been accounted for until today...