Word: clown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are the Crimson's crown prince and clown prince. Fasi--the all-time leading scorer in Harvard history--is the star. Heavily recruited out of high school in Honolulu and good enough to start for any team in the country, he is the man the Crimson looks to when it wants to put the ball...
...first scene opens in an Air Force wardroom which looks suspiciously like a grammar school classroom. The typical company--by now a familiar fixture in anti-war plays--consists of mute "idiots" and insubordinate and sharp-witted soldiers who clown around until, inevitably, one of them dies. As the characters have been seen before, the lines, too, have a certained hackneyed ring: "We're a peace-loving people and that's why we are going to bomb Constantinople off the map." "It's not our's to reason why. It's yours to do as you're told...
Still others oohed and aahed the variety of ballgowns, ermine-lined dresses, clown suits, and top hats...
...mustachioed little clown with an undersize jacket and oversize trousers to symbolize IBM's first computer aimed at the mass market? That hardly fits IBM's stuffy old image, but when the company needed an advertising campaign for its new personal computer 2½ years ago, it turned to one of the 20th century's most enduring and endearing characters: Charlie Chaplin's Tramp. Says Charles Pankenier, director of communications for the PC: "We were dealing with a whole new audience that never thought of IBM as a part of their lives." Industry insiders estimate that...
...battery! Is that serious? He: I don't know about assault, but for battery they charge you and put you in a dry cell). The attractive, high-spirited cast avoids the twin pitfalls of archaeologist awe and camp condescension. And Lawson is a deadpan delight, a sad-clown naif in the spirit of Buster Keaton and Harry Langdon. Whether scurrying for his snooty brothers' clothes while muttering an ironic "With pleasure!" or double-talking his way into the princess's ball as an Amazonian adventurer, Lawson radiates working-class star quality. He is the best reason...