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Their lyrics connect the natural and supernatural, transmuting homely details into talismans of the beyond. An ordinary object like the stone in The Iron Stone evokes a vision of Atlantis, of a divine jester called "Sir Primalform Magnifico," of "forests and centaurs and gods of the night." The meandering songs, some of them 25 minutes long, contain dreamlike cascades of cryptic imagery, as in Ducks on a Pond...
Richard Nixon will also have at least one crony with whom he can feel completely comfortable when the pressures of office grow too great. Charles Gregory ("Bebe") Rebozo, however, is not exactly a court jester. He is a Florida real estate millionaire who evidently made his fortune by bringing to bear the very sort of methodical perseverance that won the presidency for Nixon. Commenting on a certain steady, plodding quality in Rebozo, one unfriendly observer says: "He is just like Nixon. That's why they're such great friends...
Friday, September 27 THE DON RICKLES SHOW (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). "Mr. Warmth" plays the insulting court jester in a variation of his nightclub and talk-show routine. Premiere...
...house sits like a jester in a court of sedate plutocrats. Its chimney is rakishly out of plumb. The roof shingles are a motley mismatch. An attached garage is nothing but a skeleton of stone pillars, and the garden is dominated by a magnificent stand of ragweed. The house shows not its facade but its robust posterior to Heathcote Road, one of the best addresses in New York's pleasant suburban town of Scarsdale...
...about his exact age). After high school, he began performing at night under such names as Larry Love and Deny Dover in dreary Greenwich Village bars. Since becoming a regular two years ago at a midtown nightspot called The Scene, he has risen to the status of court jester in the local realm of camp. Now six network television appearances, and the recent release of his first record album, have helped place him in a cultish tradition, that goes back through Shakespeare's clowns all the way to the Roman circus-that of the holy fool...