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Died. Reese ("Goose") Tatum, 45, clown prince of basketball, star of the world-famed Harlem Globetrotters from 1942 to 1955 and since then with his own Harlem Magicians, a jolly black giant of a man who brought razzle-dazzle ball handling to the sort of high art and low comedy that earned him more at his peak ($65,000 a year) than he could have made with a straight pro team; after a long illness; in El Paso...
...proper placement can be achieved, but by negative example, the color cartoon often violates such principles deliberately, for humorous effect. Thus, when Tom or Jerry gets flattened by a train steaming out of a direction we never knew existed, our laughter is more complicated than that we give a clown's pratfall: we sense, also, that a plastic impossibility has occurred...
...tragic queen, comedian and clown...
...Virgin. Incorporated into the salady festoon are samples of all that the hothouses, orangeries and private zoos of Flemish aristocracy could offer. Roses and carnations are mixed with more pungent garlics, cabbages and peppers; common wheat is intertwined with pumpkins and artichokes. Even a capuchin monkey in a clown costume drags a fruit basket toward the Madonna. Avont's maternal scene in the center, except for some winged cherubs, is more touched by pastoral piety than divine illumination...
...everybody's tomboy tennis partner and their daughter, their sister, their mum. To grown men, she is a lady; to housewives, the gal next door; to little children, the most huggable aunt of all. She is Christmas carols in the snow, a companion by the fire, a laughing clown at charades, a girl to read poetry to on a cold winter's night...