Word: clown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...empty city street at night. The figures come swirling together, "sharing energies" as Borg puts it, only to unmask themselves after the encounter and whirl apart. In "Plot," more obvious parody accompanies a more explicit depiction of the relationships between the characters. A pair of female clowns performs whenever a male clown, shod in huge flippers, blows on his horn. Two strolling figures enter and, by depriving the trumpeter of his supporting props, leave the women free from their male-dominated roles. "Sunday morning...undone" also depends on audience recognition of a familiar setting and roles. As the curtain goes...
...love with you; I hear your songs in my sleep." Then two healthy cats arrived, accompanied by five boxes of clothes and a would-be groupie. Trouble was, none of this tribute pleased Emmett Kelly, 77, who is more famous as the somber, sad-eyed clown Weary Willie than as a singer. Kelly, a former star with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, says his problems were caused by Pop Tunesmith Neil Sedaka. On posters for his album Hungry Years, Sedaka appears in clown face similar to the character Kelly created in 1921 and later copyrighted. "Weary Willie...
...popular activism declined throughout America? "The issues are certainly there. People are either just afraid to go out and deal with them or are indifferent. I know I'm trying to take the seventies seriously. Now, someone like Jerry Rubin is a clown. I don't know that Rubin ever even took himself seriously," says Berrigan...
...found ample time to clown around. Carl Yastrzemski played a game of dodgeball, ducking out of the path of the ball a fraction of a second before it would hit him as it sailed in from the outfield. On the bullpen bench, outfielder Rick Miller and catcher Tim Blackwell engaged in a fierce game of hockey. Miller used the handle of a bat and shot a baseball forcing Blackwell to make some spectacular kick saves as well as a few tremendous diving saves. Blackwell also made good use of a rusty nail, poking his opponent to keep...
...Blacks. Jean Genet's symbolic clown drama uses the metaphor of race hatred to suggest the absurdity of society and life in general. At the Loeb, April 8-11 and 14-17, at 8 p.m. Tickets...