Word: clowned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reassured, Betty Ford is more outgoing than ever. One recent morning, she arrived at St. John's Church, where the Fords often worship, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony opening a Christmas bazaar. When a clown on hand for the occasion broke into a dance, Mrs. Ford, a former student of Martha Graham, spontaneously joined in. A few days later she taped a cameo appearance for a forthcoming Mary Tyler Moore show. The same day she helped launch a Braniff airplane painted with a Bicentennial design by Alexander Calder. At home, she brings in Liberty's puppies for guests...
...play is a heap of incoherence. I would also single out the Prince of Morocco (Curt Anderson), Salerio (John Sedgwick), Nerissa (Meg Vaillancourt), and Jessica (Andrea LaSonde) for their well-executed performances. Launcelot Gobbo (Kevin Grumbach) did some unexpectedly successful things with some of Shakespeare's least inspired clown material, and his father (Peter Frisch) served him as an effective foil. Lorenzo (Danny Snow) managed to project a kind of cortesia Castiglione would have recognized. The only serious miscasting was the Duke of Venice himself (David Garcia) who lacked the eloquence to make his magnanimity seem better than a sham...
Through his juggling connections, Haber got a job as a juggling clown at an amusement park the summer before his freshman year...
Haber says his stint as a clown was his first "real experience" in juggling. He performed with two other jugglers, six shows a day, six days a week...
...rewrote the rules of man aging: he platooned his infielders, played by hunches, gambled on percentages. The Yankees suffered 72 injuries that year. They also won the pennant and World Series. The clown abruptly became "the Old Perfesser...