Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Germany, particularly in Düsseldorf, where he lives, teaches and, by way of extension of his social theories, sponsors an institute called the Free International University, supporting it with the large income from his work. He is seen by the right as a demented blend of gangster and clown, and by some of the less militant student left as a messiah...
...classic clown tradition, Brooks claims that none of this has brought happiness-and he may very well be right. "Jim is a roller coaster," says Daniels. "He's up. He's down. You try to hang on and you see he's going in another direction." Like the Burt Reynolds character in Starting Over, the bearded Brooks, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lytton Strachey, apparently had a slow recovery from divorce. "I would go out on a date," he says, "and have difficulty breathing." But he finally had a soft landing into a second marriage, with...
...indelible message of the Garden concerts was survival. The Who spent the '70s riding out the trends and passing tempests of this irresolute rock-musical decade. Now they are ready to rise above them. Since Moon was their prime anarchic spirit, a blithe and murderous clown as well as a killer drummer, his passing could have taken the edge of risk and controlled madness from the band, left them without a storm center. But the unsentimental truth has proved to be that the lessons of geometry do not necessarily apply, and that in rock the whole is sometimes greater...
...Mondale reach for the presidency looks fanciful now, the intramural White House staff squabbling is real. "Mondale is a clown," charged a ranking insider recently. "He has difficulty comprehending the significance of important issues. He is certainly not presidential material." According to such critics, Mondale is "lazy," taking afternoon naps in his office and tending to go home at 5 p.m. Complains a White House aide: "Fritz has no staying power. You give him an assignment, an area to oversee, and after a few months he loses interest." The same staffer insists that Mondale never pushes contrary ideas...
...punch the time clock, Shorty," he does, literally, and with style. Mike, played by Dennis Quade, is a pretty standard version of the hot-rodding, tough former quarterback--you last saw him in American Graffiti--but in Breaking Away he's more vulnerable, and more honest. Ciro, the clown with the deadpan expression, is as good as his company--an astonishing set of performances for a gang of unknowns...