Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shaktman did a number of things to Jack. Perhaps the most important of these was to change the setting from a dingy room to a circus. The atmosphere of pure glitter and no meaning could not have fitted the situation better. The family of a clown strive first to make him admit to a love of hashed potatoes, and then to get married. This apparently signifies acceding to the ordinary world. Mr. Langella was excellent as Jack and Dorothy Gurvitz was outstanding as his sister. Karla Feinzig as the girl he is to marry was beautiful, but not terribly good...
...Natural Clown. Shirley is a "fringie" (part-time member) of "The Clan," an exclusive, halfway-out social clique headed by Sinatra and Dean Martin, and she is still frankly delighted by their attentions. "I'm shy and introverted with them, and wondering if I'm doing the right thing," she says. "I wouldn't presume to try to be anything but myself with them." The Clan, in turn, treats her as a sort of mascot. Says Clansman Peter Lawford: "She's a guy, a funny girl, a natural clown." Says Dean Martin: "She's also...
...herded the crowds to the Club for a full day's activities and dancing at night. During the day some families took bus trips to nearby Manchester Yacht Club, to Salem for an historical tour, or to Singing Beach. There a few brave souls, who, according to the class clown, "will never make their 50th., swam in 58 degrees ocean surf. On the links, E. Howard Roorbach, with a gross 82, and William T. Piper Jr., with a 33 putting score, took honors...
...confessed that they found Gallizio's drippings and crisscross calligraphy as good as or better than most abstractions. Said the art critic of Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "After all, in the circus we have learned to discern fine artistry and great human values beneath a clown." Said irreverent Painter Pinot Gallizio, a former professor of chemistry and amateur archaeologist who turned painter only seven years ago: "Painting as such has reached the end of its road. From now on, the human eye will be perfectly satisfied by seeing any color or shape, provided the color...
Gotta go play the clown. Two o'clock...