Word: clowns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...raucous, big-beat sound they achieve by electric amplification of all their instruments makes a Beatle performance slightly orgiastic. But the boys are the very spirit of good clean fun. They look like shaggy Peter Pans, with their mushroom haircuts and high white shirt collars, and onstage they clown around endlessly-twisting, cracking jokes, gently laughing at the riotous response they get from their audience. The precise nature of their charm remains mysterious even to their manager. "I dropped in at a smoky, smelly, squalid cellar," he says of the day he discovered them, "and there were these four youths...
...marvelously amusing people having a wonderful time. They thanked her for it by giving her a free ride through the caviar-and-champagne life, the transatlantic life, the gaspy-gossipy life, which she enjoyed so much that she made lots of other people enjoy it too. She was a clown always ready and willing to take a pratfall, and she was often compared to a court jester. But Elsa was really a kind of super cruise director, working with diligence and resourcefulness to keep the passengers amused-sometimes even with each other...
...Gaulle in 1961 tried to battle inflation by decreeing a cut in butchers' profit margins, which in many cases amounted to 50%. Again this year, De Gaulle's regime demanded that butchers cut some fat from their prices. Last week, striking back, indignant Parisian butchers closed clown 3,355 of 3,744 butcher shops in greater Paris and cut off beef purchases from La Villette, the vast, archaic meat-wholesaling center on the edge of the city. That strictly limited the capital's supply. Result: chaos...
...ancient days by emperor and clown...
...alone put him at a disadvantage with people. His early letters record his triumphs over the demon gin; his defeats were recorded by others. Because he was a famous young man, he could never anonymously fall down a flight of stairs or insult his hostess or make a howling clown of himself, because someone was always there industriously to record a momentary superiority to a man who had temporarily made an idiot of himself. He had the further bad fortune to be a romantic and, what is more, a romantic who was foolish enough to marry the heroine...