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Cortney the clown walked into the Magician's bedroom one night. He hadn't visited the Magician in four years, but still the Magician knew him better than anybody else whom Cortney the Clown knew...

Author: By David L. Rettig, | Title: A FABLE | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...Shelton (Bull Durham) directs Blaze with plenty of pungent wit, but from a high, disinterested view. He never gets steam into the affair. Paul Newman approaches Earl from the outside too, as a growly-bear clown who doesn't realize he's King Lear. Lolita Davidovich, making the most of her first big break, plays Blaze as a sensible, loving career gal with an overripe body. But the picture is not mainly about sex or even love; it is about an aging man's loss of sexual, political and personal power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Time and the River | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Another student, who plans to be a fashion designer, observes, "We get along with each other as best we can. At least here we can be ourselves." The school clown, he has been at Harvey Milk for a year. "At my old school, everyone asked me why I didn't do sports. I wouldn't change for anyone, but I went to two at-home games. It was great to be with the gang, but it didn't really change anything. The kids hit me and pushed me around, and finally I stopped going. My parents support my being here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City: Harvey Milk School | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

This McNamara thing was tough. He's a scout for the Mariners, I was told. I was puzzled. Mariner? I looked it up in the dictionary, and found the entry "member of a clown act that generally performs on an artificial, indoor baseball field in the Pacific Northwest...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Locating Long-Lost Athletes Like Larry | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

...biggest change is psychological. For the first time since the murderous clown-President Idi Amin took over the government in a 1971 coup, Ugandans can walk the streets without fear. "I still have no glass in my windows, and I can't afford sugar for my tea," says Adam Mayanja, 48, who returned to his 32-acre coffee farm north of Kampala three years ago. "But I sleep at night. There is peace and I am free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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