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...serious trouble because of the current sex scandal, which now involves accusations that a big-time cocaine dealer was present at many of the Villa Certosa festivities. When he visited the site of the recent train accident, he was greeted by shouts of “Clown!” Berlusconi’s attempts to assert his power, his determined hubris, now seems not only pathetic, but also politically and literally dangerous...
...unhappiest person on Happiest People Ever ! ? Is it the drunk man with a baby? The depressed woman alone at a party? Nope - think again. The award goes to the elderly people wearing clown costumes, almost certainly against their will. Now that is awkward. And hilarious...
...book, Lafair describes the 13 personality types she's identified - including the persecutor, the avoider, the clown, the martyr, the rebel - and explains how they got that way, how to work with them and, perhaps most important, how to tell if baggage from your own distant past is weighing down your career. It's certainly possible to reach the top in business without ever facing your inner demons, and we've all seen some pretty loony CEOs. But Lafair contends that lasting success is built on self-knowledge. "It's an illusion to think you can be a stellar leader...
...marking its silver anniversary (the company was founded by Montreal street performers in 1984), Cirque has done a show like the early ones. Kooza, from the Sanskrit word for "box," is light on elaborate production values, heavy on old-fashioned circus acts: jugglers, tumblers, contortionists, high-wire walkers... and clowns. Kooza's writer-director, David Shiner, has decades of intercontinental renown as a clown-mime; and his show throws a long spotlight on three of the breed. Nice change: they're all North Americans, and they talk - no Marcel Marceau winsomeness here. Surprise: they're fast, raucous and pretty funny...
...imperious King clown (Gordon White) leads his vigorous aides-de-camp (Christian Fitzharris and Jimmy Slonina) strutting through the crowd before the performance and, during it, dragging volunteer victims on stage for some not-so-innocent merriment. In one prize bit, White is seen fainting from exhaustion and Fitzharris leans over him to give him the breath of life; as the kiss gets more amatory, Slonina avidly cranks an invisible camera and cheap disco music fills the air - it's the first Cirque de Porno. There's also a cast member in a yellow shaggy-dog suit who trots...