Word: clowning
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...months wore on, it seemed that more and more members of Jimmy Carter's all-male Georgia Mafia did not cotton to the brash, opinionated woman who served as his Assistant for Public Liaison-his emissary to women, ethnics and other demanding constituent groups. "A flake and a clown," some staffers grumbled openly when she made headlines with her impulsive acts-prematurely calling for Bert Lance's resignation, injudiciously using her office to round up guests for a fund raiser to pay off her old campaign debts, inviting homosexual activists to the White House. Only two weeks...
...generation Irish street-guy was roaming the trashy streets at night mad, contriving ways to defy who ever crossed his path. Unlike many of his friends, Carlin went to a "progressive Catholic school" and was spared such stimuli as corporal punishment and uniforms. He looks back on his "class clown" days and sees ironies that were never apparant to him at that...
Carlin harbors no intentions of decaying, of joining the Show Biz Kids in Hollywood by the swimming pool and the shapely bods. The wiry Irish class clown and streetcorner toker from White Harlem still enjoys visiting his mother in the old neighborhood, and seems to gain perspective on his life as he ages. Soon his funny beard will turn gray--and age and eternity aside, it is painful to imagine that George Carlin will become a prisoner of his own words...
Presiding over the play is the clown Feste, whose name doubtless came from the mock-king fest us who ruled over the old Twelfth Night saturnalia. Feste was assigned the four major songs, since Shakespeare's acting company had recently acquired in Robert Armin a gifted singer to succeed the clown Will Kempe. The current Feste is Mark Lamos, who not only has a fine voice but also plucks his own theorbo in the charming songs composed by John Morris. Freedman has also given Feste four additional singers. In the setting of "O Mistress Mine," for instance, with its lovely...
...Browns lost the 1944 series to the Cardinals. They also lost their momentum. Nothing, including the midget and clown introduced after the war by Bill Veeck, could lure the fans. Sold to a Baltimore brewer who brought them to his own city and renamed them the Orioles, the Browns played their last season in St. Louis in 1953. As they had for most of their careers, the team played to almost empty stands. But at least they kept tradition alive. The 1953 St. Louis Browns finished last...