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...battery! Is that serious? He: I don't know about assault, but for battery they charge you and put you in a dry cell). The attractive, high-spirited cast avoids the twin pitfalls of archaeologist awe and camp condescension. And Lawson is a deadpan delight, a sad-clown naif in the spirit of Buster Keaton and Harry Langdon. Whether scurrying for his snooty brothers' clothes while muttering an ironic "With pleasure!" or double-talking his way into the princess's ball as an Amazonian adventurer, Lawson radiates working-class star quality. He is the best reason...
Others, such as fourth-time walker Kathryn Nunnelly, said that they did not collect pledges. "I don't get into sponsors, I walk for the morale," said Nunnelly, who wore a clown suit and distributed "clown kiss" stickers as she walked along Memorial Drive...
...above it, the cold, oppressive ziggurat of an art deco-style New York building. The film noir dramatics of Longo's work are tuned down, and a subtler pathos comes through, the surprise being that Longo was able to extract it from such obvious cliches as the Urban Clown and the Faceless Skyscraper...
...early teens Moore learned how to win affection, and the lesson has dominated his life: people like to laugh, and they love those who can make them do so. Having discovered that vintage truth, he became the class clown. Says he: "I think it's every comedian's story." He was developing another crowd-pleasing talent as well; he was a fine pianist who concocted melodies easily. He vaulted over the class barrier by winning a scholarship in music to Oxford; by the time he left with two degrees in 1958, he was an accomplished Garner-style jazzman...
...Chicago Biographer Alzina Stone Dale indicates in her spirited biography, Chesterton doted on paradox. The lover of tradition was a radical populist; the Falstaffian clown was a deeply committed intellectual; the friend of such freethinkers as George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells converted to Roman Catholicism at 48, and thereafter engaged in eloquent public debates with his colleagues...