Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ruthless People combines all the old gags in the book, wrapped up in a slightly different package--from car chases to clown masks to sex with a Dustbuster. It's so over-conscious of trying to be the screwiest comedy ever, of trying to be crude and daring, that it ends up too slick, too planned and much too repetitious. Another summer, another summer movie...
...moms and dads--not to mention doting grandparents--are shelling out large sums for the top-of-the-line trappings of babyhood. At least a few infants are sleeping in 24-karat-gold-plated cribs, which Lewis of London, a New York City-based chain, sells for $1,995. Clown, a children's store in Chicago, offers a $42 sterling-silver toothbrush. And thousands of tots are being wheeled around in sleek Aprica strollers from Japan, which cost...
After defeating the Penguin, the Joker, and the Riddler, Batman fell to his most powerful, insidious enemy: Lorenzo Semple Jr., the Television Script Writer. Semple was responsible for the TV series Batman, which demoted the Caped Crusader to Campy Clown. Fans of the printed page Batman protested the desecration of their hero, but the cries of outrage were lost amid the nation's giggles...
...usually worked himself back into favor. Dylan was, after all, increasingly famous and boisterously charming. He could play the convivial clown entertaining the chaps at the pub, and the naughty boy whom women fought one another to comfort and reform. He encouraged such ministrations but certainly had no intentions of being changed. The poet chose for his bride Caitlin Macnamara, an Irish woman as flighty and flamboyant as himself, and promised her before their wedding, "You'll never, I'll never let you, grow wise, and I'll never, you shall never let me, grow wise, and we'll always...
...this program emphasizes "more ephemeral work," said project administrator Katherine S. Mayes. Poets, dancers, musicians, a woman who works with steam, an MIT holograph artist, and a clown have all submitted work to Arts on the Line, Mayes said...