Word: clowning
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...Funny Business: But $200, a Super Party Grant, will you allow you to upgrade from call girl to clown-whore. There’s no downside to this thing right here...
...decode it. The concept of an implicit criticism of the fast-paced world of today through an intricate plot is meritorious, but neither Høeg’s plot, nor his characters, nor even his style have enough strength to carry this through.The main protagonist, world-renowned circus clown Kasper, is blessed with incredible hearing verging on telepathy—and also cursed with incredible tax debt. Mysterious and powerful nuns enlist his help in guarding twelve particularly gifted children in exchange for international immunity. After one of them, the eponymous KlaraMaria, is kidnapped, Kasper sets...
...unbeaten Yale slip through its fingers in overtime. And they play with contrasting styles. Penn prefers to wear down foes with rugged running back Joe Sandberg. Brown is airing it out with QB Michael Dougherty, who has already surpassed the 2,000-yard mark. Quakers by a red, spongy clown nose...
...reason why hearing his opinions would be valuable. But, as it turned out, his speech was replete with neither detailed policy discussions nor insights available only to those on high. The Crimson, though, at least also saw value in embarrassing him—“a clown cowering behind the podium”—for his outlandish views. If exposing bigots is a worthy goal of free speech, it is surprising that the David Dukes of the world are not already on the Ivy League speaking circuit...
...given—in every Iranian family who has a girl, they’re 10 times happier than having a son…women are more respected than men are.” Even more telling was his discourse on Iran’s treatment of gays. A clown cowering behind his podium, Ahmadinejad claimed, “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who?...