Word: clownish
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...greatest of Broadway musicals was exuberantly revived there as a color- drenched, clownish yet passionate paean to a big-city zest and vitality that no longer exist, and probably never did. Faith Prince's Miss Adelaide was the year's musical highlight...
That glimpse of Washington, where the powerful Senator William Fulbright redeemed the clownish Arkansas Governor, helped banish ideas of playing jazz in smoky nightclubs. Clinton asked his high school counselor, Edith Irons, what college offered a good program in foreign service. The only one she knew, offhand, was Georgetown, but she would look up others...
Friends say that the Rosanne Barresque rendition of the Anthem was vintage Ramos--a spirited, clownish performance meant to attract more people to a women's basketball game...
...crime. To hear Young speak, he loosed a shower of gold over the city -- 1,000 new companies located there (300 from overseas), $70 billion invested ($11 billion from overseas), 700,000 new jobs created. Yet to critics, Atlanta should be his burden, not his boost. Lester Maddox, the clownish ex-Governor running for his old job, said to Young in a televised debate, "You ran Crime City." FBI statistics show a 50% increase in the crime rate during Young's eight years in office...
...press -- is a boulder of a man: easily 250 lbs., and 6 ft. 2 in. tall. His ruddy face is a cross between Leonid Brezhnev's and Robert Mitchum's. His abundant hair, dyed black, is slicked back '30s style to counterpoint bushy black eyebrows that can appear deceptively clownish...