Word: jestering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...scene outside the proceedings took on a circus atmosphere. Apart from victims dispensing quotes ("There's no shame. We're all victims"), an array of New York City characters paraded by to promote their particular causes and enterprises. A drag queen and a court jester from the Imperial Court of New York carried signs advertising a "Night of a Thousand Gowns." They went practically unnoticed as hundreds of reporters, both print and television, chased after anyone who could provide a sound bite on Bernie Madoff...
...Because, really, what is fairness anyway? 6. Jeremy S. Lin ’10—Obama’s personal basketball trainer. Dunking on Michelle gets old after a while. 7. Steven Pinker—Hairdresser. 8. Derek M. Flanzraich ’10 —Court jester. Hosts the official Obama Family YouTube videos. 9. N. Gregory Mankiw—Obama’s charisma/public appearances coach. 10. Matthew M. Di Pasquale ’09—Photographer. Hoped to publish a monthly family newsletter, but everyone keeps claiming to be “too busy?...
...down an avenue long embraced by co-star Common but eschewed by most gangsta rappers. “Wake up” is the message he sends to the hustlers and gold diggers, and it resonates surprisingly well, considering Luda’s past as hustler and hip-hop jester. Ludacris is able to keep a sense of humor throughout his rhymes, however, so the listener’s always laughing with, rather than at, the artist. On the collaboration with Chris Rock, “Everybody Hates Chris,” Rock shoots off a routine satirizing Ludacris...
...Second, because I was wrong about Columbia. In my first Around the Ivies column, I wasted perfectly good insults, such as calling the Lions “the court jester of the Ivy League,” that would have been much better used on Dartmouth. Columbia has a fearsome defense, and if it can maintain that part of its game and pick up a star or two on offense, the Ancient Eight will be wise not to take the Lions lightly next season...
...your family” were only the beginning of an eight-year laugh riot! But after eight years of State of the Union addresses where nuclear was pronounced as an arbitrary sequence of three syllables, we have become accustomed to seeing the presidential office as part-king, part-jester. The idea of the United States President as a somewhat lovable buffoon remains firmly ensconced in the public mind, both at home and abroad...