Word: clown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are in transit, once a day to the law library and once a day to the recreation room, they are handcuffed. Four of them are "honor residents," permitted to roam unchained in the gray hallways. One of these is John Wayne Gacy, 39, the building contractor and amateur clown convicted three years ago of murdering 33 young men and boys...
...candidates Loudmouth Lowell and Terrible Toby. Behind the name-calling, two-term incumbent Republican Lowell Weicker, 51, and four-term Democratic Congressman Toby Moffett, 38, are locked in a dead-heat classic of American political theater. Weicker was ambushed recently at a campaign stop by Flip-Flop the Clown, a costumed Moffett staffer seeking to symbolize the incumbent's election-year renunciations of his 1981 votes for the President's budget and tax cuts. Weicker, whose slogan has been "Nobody's Man but Yours," has countered by pushing his image as an unbossed maverick, a legitimate characterization...
...HARVARD, that clown has made an appearance on more than one occasion. Weinstein certainly made a distinct impression on the audiences at the last two Quincy House talent shows. Two years ago, a football player was just about to carry him offstage when he ended his barrage of dead baby jokes. "Those weren't so bad," says Weinstein. "What really killed me was the one about Imple-the-pimple-sucker. One Quincy resident calls that performance "probably the most disgusting thing I've heard in my life...
About 250 students showed up for the festivities and were treated to a haunted house in the Strauss Hall common room, a bluegrass concert in the Yard, a storyteller, and a performance by Brian the Clown (in reality Greenough resident Brian L. Kenet...
After the clown performance, the children toured the Yard, along with Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, the Harvard Band and the men's rugby team, before returning to school...