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Gill complained of her treatment by both security agencies. She said the FBI "never paid me adequately," and that Mountain, the CIA's Cambridge chief, was "a clown who forced several people to leave that office" because of his incompetence...
...stood out in the curtainraiser, a dull concert version of Purcell's Indian Queen, because he sang English instead of whatever tenors are singing when they roll their r's like guttural hyenas on second-rate recordings of Handel oratorios. Fuller and McCarthy also sang well; Lise Landis, the clown Apollinaire described in one of his less inspired couplets as "Zanzibar's Monsieur Lacouf/Who died and died again without saying ouf," joined Peter Kellogg in an entr'acte dance that was both comic and lyrical...
...whom he has murdered, the Pacino Richard becomes the archetypal Latin lover, a superior Rudolph Valentino with sound. Playing off against his brother Edward IV-prim in gray double-breasted suit with pink button-down shirt and polka-dot tie-he cuts up like a sinister baggy-pants clown. Cornered on the battlefield where he is about to lose his crown and his life, waving the royal dagger like a switchblade, he turns into pure street fighter...
Kerry Saravelas calls Joe Tyree "my most charismatic streetworker." A short but powerfully built black man in his middle thirties, Tyree is balding on top with a fuzzy growth around the sides and a twinkle in his eyes that give his face the look of a wise Bozo-The-Clown. He grew up in Cambridge and has been working with the kids here for years. Most of the kids seem to like him, although they think he sometimes works too much within the system...
...codpieces and plaid jerkins. Singer-Composer King, 29, spins out her multitextured ballads with craft and sensitivity and raises her piano playing to something more than mere accompaniment. Nilsson, 31, blithe and winsome with his pen as well as his voice, first projected himself as a sort of sad-clown chronicler of Middle America (Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore, Mr. Tin ker), now is a zany mod-rocker (Coconut, Spaceman). In the poised, warmly expressive style of Flack, 33, the earthy emotions of gospel (Told Jesus) mix with the more polished, sinuous phrasing of jazz (Tryin' Times...