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...there on the highways," he says. "Anything can happen out there." Vehicles are continually bearing down on him, and eluding them requires a special dexterity and alertness. Says Shaw: "Anyone who thinks it's all fun out there is crazy. I may look like a clown, but it's always a life-or-death situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: States on Skates | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...classic clown, hoofer, hit lyricist (Georgy Girl), pop-music headliner and Shakespearean actor, Jim Dale began with a simple ambition. When he was nine, his father took him to a London music hall. "We sat up in the gods [top balcony], and everyone onstage looked an inch high," Dale recalls. "But I was looking at the audience. I never saw 2,000 people laugh before, and I felt so happy for that little bloke onstage. I thought then: What I want to do is make people laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Bloke Who Is Doing Everything | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

Maybe, but the kaleidoscope of comedy that is Jim Dale keeps on shifting. Right now he is more enthusiastic about doing another Days of Wine and Roses. He explains, "If I can crawl as a clown and make them laugh, it should not take much more to crawl as an alcoholic and make them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Bloke Who Is Doing Everything | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...sizes too small for my head. At the time I confess I wasn't aware of the foul-up, but when I saw none of my neighbors wearing similar get-ups, I got a little concerned. "Oh, god! I'm a freak," I thought. "I'll look like a clown with this ridiculous cap, the velvet stripes on the sleeves, and the purple curlicues on the front...

Author: By Charles B. Straus iii, | Title: The Year Off | 6/11/1974 | See Source »

...cradle, exploding from a stack of wheat bundles. At 36, Nureyev has acquired a new maturity; his dancing is less mannered. In solo work he seems eerily to be improvising-as if he were taking each leap for the first time. And he is trying out new roles: clown prince, for instance, rather than swan prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: New Role for Nureyev | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

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