Word: joker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next year. He first supported himself by making sketches for popular engravings, blossomed into genius in the last decade of his life, and died in 1569, before his 45th birthday. He left a wife and two sons. He was self-possessed, a habitual stroller and something of a practical joker; that about completes the record. Brueghel doubtless kept off the center of the stage on purpose: one sees better from the wings...
Dope Sheet. In Toronto, Ont., a Telegram racing expert picked Joker's Hill to show in the featured fifth at Old Woodbine track, had some explaining to do when Joker's Hill never ran, turned out to have bowed a tendon, was shot a week before the race...
...cheery little old baldhead with a shaggy white beard and a nightshirt down to his bare feet who bustles about creating the world, the sky, the sun and moon and Adam and Eve with an air of happy surprise. The Devil is a horned and hairy-bottomed practical joker who tosses what monkey wrenches he can into Cod's works. The angels are busy little helpers; they drape swatches of fabric around the skinless animals so that the Creator can judge which hide suits which beast; they also hold up various kinds of sky like wallpaper samples...
...their hatred. Telling Poitier why he is a "nigger," Curtis says: "It's like callin' a spade a spade. I'm a hunky. I don't try to argue out of it." Replies Actor Poitier: "You ever hear tell of a bohunk in a woodpile, Joker? You ever hear tell of 'catch a bohunk...
...farm boy happens upon them, leads them back to the burrow where he and his deserted mother (Cara Williams) live. The woman helps them smash the chain, spends the night with Joker Jackson, and persuades him to flee with her while Cullen heads overland to hop a northbound freight. In a scene that would be the worst sort of corn if the script faltered, Curtis learns that the woman has directed Poitier through a quicksand bog. Their painfully borne chain, even broken, has bound them irrevocably together, and Curtis plunges after him to sure capture by the law. Behind...