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Expert texpert (13a) choking smokers (14) don't you think the joker laughs at you . . . hohoho heeheehee haha...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Goo Goo Goo Joob | 12/14/1967 | See Source »

...Clown on bassoon: He is a practical joker. It figures, say fellow musicians, because anybody who takes up such a contrary and ridiculous instrument must have a sense of humor. Ever since Mendelssohn made the bassoon a buffoon in a clown march, the bassoonist has been trying to prove that the instrument is a gentleman or at least a pagliaccio, a clown with a soul. But nobody believes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orchestras: Psychic Symphony | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...twelve, married him at 16. "Juan is never angry-even when he gets up in the morning." Roseboro's own roommate, Dodger Shortstop Maury Wills, insists that Juan Marichal is "a nice guy-and a great individual." He is that all right. He is the grinning practical joker who passes around a perfume vial labeled "Apple Blossom," which actually is a stink bomb. He is the "Dominican Dandy" who dresses all in blue and cream. He is the mild hypochondriac who changes doctors with the wind and claims that he can't sleep properly in San Francisco because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Dandy Dominican | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...year-old water skier whose reading of "Gleeps!" will not be matched in this age, moving one acting teacher to call Batman "a film anthology of things not to do." For arch-villains in subsequent episodes, Dozier has signed Burgess Meredith (The Penguin) and Cesar Romero (The Joker). The talk of the trade is that Frank Sinatra is furious: he wanted to play The Joker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Holy Flypaper! | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

Hornet in His Quiver. The real joker is that Batman has already hit the top ten in the ratings, and the spin-offs have begun. Discothèques have kicked off a new dance, the "batusi," and five recordings of the Batman theme song have already been rushed to stores, along with a single called Batman and Robin. There is even every expectation that grown men will be showing up at Andy Warhol's next party dressed like the Batman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Holy Flypaper! | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

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