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...members for details of their sex life; parade on and off the stage in an assortment of absurdist masks and costumes. One guy clinging to a pole is wrapped up in duct tape; another wrestles naked inside a sheet of translucent plastic; then there's the vaguely threatening shirtless clown, who wanders about tangled in an extension cord, with an iron dragging at the end of it. (See TIME's top 10 theater productions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisville: Where New Plays Go to Be Born | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...safe to say that at the same time elsewhere in Spain, a monk, a Zorro, a clown and a Pink Panther were doing the same thing. (See pictures of Spain's Madcap Tomato Festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain's Costumed Debt Collectors: Final Notice? | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

Beck's surround sound plays like a mix of colonial pamphleteering, Great Depression demagoguery and the movie Red Dawn. But is he serious? He describes himself as a "rodeo clown," and he is a talented TV showman - joking and self-effacing, with a gift for big visuals and low-tech explainer stunts like his Jenga bit. Unlike O'Reilly et al., he's not a shouter. He calls his program "the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glenn Beck: The Fears of a Clown | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...Though he felt it was a mistake at the time, Alan W. Livingston, 91, brought the fledgling Beatles to the U.S. while president of Capitol Records. Some of his other nonmistakes include creating the Bozo the Clown character and co-writing the song "I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat," a musical dialogue between Tweety Bird and Sylvester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...Former Detroit mayor and laughable clown Kwame Kilpatrick jailed for his part in a sex-and-text scandal after his half-baked story about HAXXORS taking over his phone turned out to be, well, ostensibly that...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Five Worst Commencement Speakers 2009 | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

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