Word: clowning
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...moved down from the specific realm of the high-tea, highball set to a level no higher than knee, and Mother is gratefully relinquishing her place to the Party Coordinator, whose package deal, along with ordinary old balloons and the rest, most often includes a couple of puppets, a clown, sometimes even a pony...
...perpetual Poor Soul, who stumbles from woe to woe in a series of pratfalls. As Phileas Fogg's spirited gentleman's gentleman, he blundered merrily Around the World in 80 Days. Mario Moreno, as Cantinflas is known in private life, bears little resemblance to the helpless clown with the split mustache. He is one of the richest men in Mexico, with an income of something like $350,000 a year, lives like a potentate in five homes attended by a staff of 18 servants. He flies his own DC-3, has a private bull ring, and collects...
This is the condition of Flora Goforth, who must meet not her publisher's deadlines, as she likes to think, but her Maker's, as in her terror-gnawed bones she knows. Flora is a vulgar, bawdy, explosive clown in her 60s, an eternal show girl, who has buried six husbands and who, fingers warty with jewels, is still desperately, greedily, and somehow gallantly grabbing at life in a mountaintop villa in Italy. Indeed, she has three villas, pink, blue and white, all wired up in a walkie-talkie intercom system into which she dictates at all hours...
Beyond the Fringe. Four high-IQ British imps skewer cliches and milk sacred cows for irreverent merriment. The chief scholar-clown, Dr. Jonathan Miller, is a droll, gravity-defying pixy for whom a new vocabulary of humor will have to be invented...
Beyond the Fringe is an explosion of literate joy. Its four high-IQ British imps skewer clichés and milk sacred cows for irreverent merriment. The chief scholar-clown, Dr. Jonathan Miller, is a droll, gravity-defying pixy for whom a new vocabulary of humor will have to be invented...