Word: clowning
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...Milan fall ready-to-wear shows, just ended, hoping in part that a recovering U.S. economy will send a windfall of clothing orders their way. One enticement: with the weaker lira, price tags will be at least 15% lower than last year's. But the critics' reviews were mixed. Clown motifs, gold frogging, Tyrolean touches or military flourishes cluttered many of the outfits and seemed inappropriate for local customers who are trying to hide their wealth. In the end old masters Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferre walked off with the honors -- and, by no mere coincidence, the least brazen collections...
...baggage or arrange connections, and crams them three abreast into planes with only crackers and cookies to nibble. It sells no tickets through the industry's computerized reservations system and avoids flying to many large- city airports. As though to compensate for all this, its chief executive dresses in clown suits and Elvis costumes and paints his planes to resemble whales...
...works. Rush has taken to the medium in no time flat. At a svelte 270, his friendly, full-moon face piked on a Pillsbury Doughboy frame, he looks like a defrocked Friar Tuck. More important, he has underlined another aspect of his personality: that of class clown. He woos the camera like an avid freshman on a fluke date with the senior prom queen. He guffaws, he blusters, he bats his eyes, he makes kissy- face. He will do anything to keep you watching...
...inner city someone is doing crack and someone else is preaching a sermon about it. A Crip member warns a Blood wannabe not to clown him and then sells some coke to the fat white guy in the BMW form the suburbs...
Lina is the only character who is truly free. Though all the men proposition her, she says she "would sooner be a clown and set bad examples of conduct for little children than take bread from the hand of a man." She rejects gowns and wears aviator's pants and boots--a loaded gesture in a play where one character refers to the social bond as corset that "supports the figure even though it does squeeze and deform...