Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students, Sophomore Keith Jorgensen, suggests a reason: "There is less noise with girls around since you don't want to make yourself look like a fool in front of females...
...Turner has four children and got an official salary of only $11,650, but for all of his cars, houses and business properties, he had aroused little suspicion. "It wasn't hard to believe he could accumulate all those things," said a friend, "because he was an operating fool. He always had something going." Turner has little going now. Police impounded his modest savings account, then scoured his home and confiscated everything of value, including his wife's typewriter and bowling club treasury...
...virtues. It girds playgoers with borrowed strength by showing how man may bear the unbearable. Great comedy, on the other hand, holds a mirror up to man's follies and vices. Where tragedy argues that man is a marvel, comedy insists that he is a fool. Tragedy elevates; comedy deflates...
Nobby foreheads and fishlike smiles of a large group of busts portraying the politicians of the Louis Philippe government dominate the exhibit. Here Daumier's style stands out. Pinching the features into blobs and twists, he skillfully expresses a particular miser or nearsighted fool. Originally molded in unbaked clay and painted as studies for satirical lithographic portraits, these small caricatures look like papier mache puppet heads. Four of the 36 original brown heads are exhibited here for the first time in the United States. The other 32 politicians appear at the Fogg in bronze or terra cotta casts...
...fool can do administrative work...