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Word: clowning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shelton (Bull Durham) directs Blaze with plenty of pungent wit, but from a high, disinterested view. He never gets steam into the affair. Paul Newman approaches Earl from the outside too, as a growly-bear clown who doesn't realize he's King Lear. Lolita Davidovich, making the most of her first big break, plays Blaze as a sensible, loving career gal with an overripe body. But the picture is not mainly about sex or even love; it is about an aging man's loss of sexual, political and personal power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Time and the River | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Another student, who plans to be a fashion designer, observes, "We get along with each other as best we can. At least here we can be ourselves." The school clown, he has been at Harvey Milk for a year. "At my old school, everyone asked me why I didn't do sports. I wouldn't change for anyone, but I went to two at-home games. It was great to be with the gang, but it didn't really change anything. The kids hit me and pushed me around, and finally I stopped going. My parents support my being here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City: Harvey Milk School | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

This McNamara thing was tough. He's a scout for the Mariners, I was told. I was puzzled. Mariner? I looked it up in the dictionary, and found the entry "member of a clown act that generally performs on an artificial, indoor baseball field in the Pacific Northwest...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Locating Long-Lost Athletes Like Larry | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

...biggest change is psychological. For the first time since the murderous clown-President Idi Amin took over the government in a 1971 coup, Ugandans can walk the streets without fear. "I still have no glass in my windows, and I can't afford sugar for my tea," says Adam Mayanja, 48, who returned to his 32-acre coffee farm north of Kampala three years ago. "But I sleep at night. There is peace and I am free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Eastwood plays a fun-loving hard guy who captures fugitives who have skipped out on their bail money; cons a villain into believing he has won a date with Dolly Parton, then shows up in a limousine and arrests him; dresses up as a rodeo clown and nabs a bad-guy bull rider on first bounce, just as the bull has tossed him. Peters plays -- but you knew this, didn't you? -- a gorgeous, daffy bail jumper. She isn't really a villain, of course. Her dopey husband is involved with a crew of gun-fondling white supremacists, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dippy Harry | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

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