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...tramps wait. To pass the time they play games. Games become a substitute for life and the loss of purpose. They are the contretemps of clowns. The clown is the only entertainer who consistently draws laughter through his own self-abasement. Beckett's ultimate position is that man is the clown of the universe. But he is a clown for whom Beckett weeps, and that is his saving compassion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prize: Kyrie Eleison Without God | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...replied, among hisses and laughter, that he hadn't known about the change, but that it was probably sheer coincidence...

Author: By David N. Hollander and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: Protestors Confront May, Claim Berg Trespass Case Is 'Political Repression' | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...Gray's laughter immediately answered at the other end of the phone. "Me? I'm not worth a profile. Besides, I'd just be embarrassed," he argued. "Can't you call someone else...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Soccer Fullback Gray Embarrassed, But Not by Crimson's Shutout Streak | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

...rule in his beleaguered city had come to understand the merit of identifying with a winner, appeared to anoint the Mets with effervescent waters. But the victory belonged to the doughty and determined fans who had stood behind their beloved anti-heroes through seven years of tears and laughter. At long last, not only a National League pennant but also a World Series flag fluttered in the breeze atop Shea Stadium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Fable for Our Time | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...raucous caucus of miners results in some explosions of laughter. The score-notably I Still See Elisa, I Talk to the Trees and Wand'rin' Star -is strong enough to levitate several musicals. But only Presnell has a legitimate singing voice, and he is given a single solo and a walk-on role as a bordello manager. Seberg's dubbed voice is as thin as the plot, and Eastwood's real one is scarcely a millimeter thicker. Marvin gamely rasps his lines, but crooning is not his bag. Comedy is. Fitted with outrageous muttonchop whiskers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Fool's Gold | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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