Word: clown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wall of sound, all disagreeable: moanings and groanings; the prolonged squeak of something being dragged over a hard surface, like a knife on a plate; repetitious rock drumming; voices reciting mantra-like inanities; and (in its own room full of TV monitors titled Clown Torture) the hoarse voice of Nauman, dressed as a clown, in a baggy suit of vertical stripes that slyly recalls the garb of concentration-camp prisoners, shrieking, "No, no, no, nonono!" while writhing and jerking on the floor...
...good people" Ehasz meant a monkey and a clown, plus a few residents of eastern Massachusetts out to create a purely happy day--Lampoon-style...
...performance. "Our goal is, keep stars out,for this is a sacred day." No posters had been putup beforehand, but the festival received a warmwelcome from its intended audience all the same.The highlight came when the hurdy-gurdy monkey,"blowing the show away" (according to U-no, thestiltwalking clown), won the informal competitionamong all performers announced by Lampoon editorRebecca Kirshner...
Tears of a Clown...
Then the cry goes out, "Whom do you suspect the most?" "Who would do an unusual thing like that?" The answer: The Village Idiot! The Village Clown! The Village Idiot! Jack Ruby...