Word: clown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pieces" that appear in the front of the magazine, the writing shows a distinctive humor, low-key and urbane, that seems to float effortlessly above all that is encumbered and earth-bound. "How easy I have found it," Gill writes, "to rush pell-mell through the world, playing the clown when the spirit of darkness has moved me, and colliding with good times at every turn." It's as if he has lived his life in New Yorker style, a life with a few muted sorrows but on the whole transparent and unruffled...
Much of the credit for the Kings' elevation from ice follies clown to league tough guy belongs to Goaltender Rogatien Vachon, 29. With the eight-year veteran finally in his prime, the Kings have limited opponents to 85 goals this season, by far the fewest in the N.H.L. Vachon has appeared in two-thirds of the Kings' games, allowing one goal or less 19 times...
...history are written, Tucker will rank among the golden dozen." He sang 32 leading roles, appearing in 503 Met performances. Tucker himself claimed sovereignty over but a single role: "Of course I can sing it better than anyone else," he said with disarming candor about his portrayal of the clown Canio in Pagliacci. "There isn't another tenor in the world who can equal me just singing...
Tops in Taps. Brooks is a 24-hour clown who never stops performing. On the set, directing one of his own gags, he crumples to the floor and lies there clutching his sides with laughter. Between takes he lurches into an imaginary swordfight with one of his actors. Minutes later he is airily winging it through Gene Kelly's Singin 'in the Rain dance sequence, crying at top volume, "Fellini and Dick Lester are great directors, but are they tops in taps...
Moms, in short, is a broad and earthy clown. The script of Amazing Grace, however, calls on her mostly to be goodhearted and forward-looking and does not allow her enough wry humor. "That woman would make coffee nervous," she mutters at one point, one of the best lines in a movie notably short on them...