Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lose his own appetite. When his father asks Yozo what present he wants from Tokyo, his first impulse is to answer: "Nothing." ("The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference.") To mask his apartness, the youngster feels that he must play the clown, wins from his schoolmates the title of "Harold Lloyd of Northeast Japan...
...dark bay colt Tim Tam saw racing room ahead, ran like a thief and stole
the $133,950 Preakness from Sunny Blue Farm's Lincoln Road by a long
length and a half. The weather was fine, the track was fast, and when
Silky Sullivan, the California clown, clumped home eighth, he had no
excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern
horselaugh.
...time to bring out all the old jokes, time for some radio clown to pose the 75 million-franc question: "Name all the French Premiers since 1947," and for the cocktail-party gag, "Do you think the Algerians will get a government before we do?" Some Frenchmen, it is true, seem to regard the crisis as the next-to-last straw. Thunders Editor Pierre Brisson in Figaro: "It is no longer a Parliament, but a monstrous jamming enterprise. The conclusion is to reform or disappear. The margin for the Assembly is only a thread's width." But, unhappily...
...with 3,300 tickets sold for a Pacific Opera performance of Pagliacci, Tenor Ernest Lawrence phoned to say he was too sick to sing Canio. Two hours before curtain time, Director Arturo Casiglia reached Bocce Tenor Arthur Peters, zipped him into the costume of Leoncavallo's tragic clown, gave him a pointer or two on acting and propelled him onstage. He did fine, got warm critical notices...
...BEAU CLOWN, by Berthe Grimault (188 pp.; Rinehart; $3), a crawling compost heap of a novel, accepts as normal and comical the sort of horror about which seamy-side Novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline wrote with fascination. Author Grimault describes a degenerate clan of French peasants and the flotsam that fetches up at their farm-two prostitutes, four U.S. Negro soldiers foraging for sex, and a netful of AWOL lunatics, including a gently demented old clown and a bloody-nailed slug named Chopper (he is obsessed with decapitation). When Chopper is gored by a huge white bull, a litter...