Word: clownish
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...Spitzer muddled through his interrogation, laughing off a few well-placed jabs. He was still sporting the clownish TV makeup later in the evening when he entered a nearby restaurant called Taboon. The maître d' scrambled to make room for him, as if Lindsay Lohan had just swept in with an entourage. "I hope it came across in the Colbert thing that we haven't put any remedies [for the financial system] in place," Spitzer was saying. He ordered a Scotch and soda. "Barack is still listening to the same people. None of the questions he asked were...
...daughter of to son of another distasteful real estate tycoon • lawsuit of against author who claimed actual worth of is a fraction of the billions endlessly and nauseatingly boasted about by is thrown out of court • reference to in new book by Kurt Andersen as "a clownish reality-show artifact" is not appreciated...
...middle-class person like myself. I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage. Everything I do is very frivolous, of course - and very clownish - but if I can write about it and give a few people some laughs, then it's worthwhile...
...attorney general • denial by of calling for Sen. Mark Begich to resign so Ted Stevens could be re-elected after e-mailing "I absolutely agree" in response to Alaska Republican Party chairman's call for Begich to step down • description of by former supporter of as "a clownish, vindictive amateur...
...problem is Kumar, who has risen in the Bollywood hierarchy from thug to action star to top comedian. Bearing a disconcerting resemblance to Adam Sandler in his clownish moments (and, when he finally achieves heroic stature, to John Turturro), Kumar must play a child-man whose talisman is a potato imprinted with the elephant likeness of the Hindu god Ganesh; but the 6 ft. 1 actor is too big and imposing to lend vulnerability to this naif. Instead of being innocent, he just seems slow. (On the flight to China, an Indian man seated behind Sidhu asks him, in English...