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...nation disarmament talks in Geneva made a point of putting the President's jest on the official record to illustrate U.S. "hostility" to the Soviet Union. In Western Europe, the West German weekly Stern appeared on newsstands with a cover that depicted Reagan wearing a clown's red plastic nose. Underneath were the words: PRESIDENT REAGAN'S JOKE: TO BE LAUGHED TO DEATH...
...Little Italy and Chinatown. The Beat-era City Lights Bookshop, where Jack Kerouac gave drunken poetry readings, and the Purple Onion, the takeoff nightspot for Phyllis Diller and the Kingston Trio. Iced Campari among jet-setters at Enrico's Sidewalk Cafe, and hamburgers among Oriental teen-agers at Clown Alley. White-shod tourists and Mohawked punks. Saints and sinners bathed in the garish glow of strip joints. This is the cultural clashpoint known as North Beach. Here, on a three-block stretch of Broadway, the barkers compete hoarsely for the business of the leery and the leering. The price...
...newly formed American Music Theater Festival. They pieced Band together with the help of the late Ira Gershwin and Anne Kaufman Schneider, the playwright's daughter. It opened last week in Philadel phia with a cast led by Saturday Night Live Veteran Bill Irwin, 34, a practiced stage clown. "It's a pretty garbled satire," admits Irwin, "but it has a wonderful thrust." The Inquirer critic liked Irwin and the rest of the cast, but the play, he thought, did not survive the reconstructive surgery...
...honest," says Bombeck (for it is indeed she, the syndicated star humorist of 900 papers in the U.S. and Canada, and the baggy-toreador-pants clown of ABC'S Good Morning America), "when I started, I thought I was squirrelly. I thought it was just me. After the first columns, everyone on the block confessed it was them too." Those early columns, written in Centerville, Ohio, back in the early '60s, were not quite Corinthian, but they sure were Ermaic. Their message was that housework, if it is done right, can kill you. It was that the women...
...chance, the family in the house across the street was that of a young radio broadcaster, Phil Donahue, with five growing children. Donahue, an old friend now, whose morning TV appearances bring housework to a halt across the country, confirms that Bombeck was by no means the neighborhood clown. She and Bill, he says, were among the most hardworking of the development's house-proud do-it-yourselfers. All the houses had Early American furniture, including the inevitable rocker with a cushion tied to the back. The idea of Bombeck as a hopelessly disorganized housewife "is, at the very...