Word: joker
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Penguin & Joker. Was all this to be taken seriously? By the kids, yes; they will watch anything. The grownups are supposed to see Batman as camp, a sort of tongue-in-chic philosophy of pop culture, which decrees that anything that is really bad must be awfully good. In this case, Batman is so really bad it is terrible...
...University) has now dipped into Wheeler's collection and selected 24 gracefully wrought, highly polished little gems. A favorite hero is the trickster figure, who appears in many guises (as a taciturn bumpkin, a crafty samurai, a modest wife, a voluptuous virgin) and unfailingly triumphs. But the Japanese joker is a special breed. A blend of Socrates and Till Eulenspiegel, he serves as gadfly to his ritualistic feudal society, sits in judgment on its fools and fakers. These stories establish him as a considerable literary creation...
...bridges" for the French Resistance. When the Allies throng ashore, Irina and a doughty band of villagers who have sallied forth as a welcoming committee are being held hostage by the Germans. The G.I.s who liberate them include wry-smiling Sergeant Cliff Robertson and the inevitable New York Jewish joker (Red Buttons) assigned to all units for comedy relief. Since the village is under siege, Cliff is ordered to evacuate his charges, and the bulk of the action consists of dreary trudging to and from the beach, battling military red tape, ducking strafer planes, and getting acquainted...
When he comes onstage in sports jacket and dark slacks, he looks like the sort of joker who might have flunked out of Yale as a result of being over joyed by college life. Actually, he is a 1959 graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans. His father's name was Paul Rose, his mother was Pauline Rose, his sister's name is Paula, and his name is Paul Jr. Inevitably, neighbors called them The Four Roses. "On radio," says Biff, "the bad guys are always called Biff. I was an ugly, ugly baby, a big gangster baby...
...seemed to hold a royal flush ranging from Kasai's rightist "King" Albert Kalonji through such "moderate" face cards as Army Boss Joseph Mobutu and Justice Minister Justin Bomboko to the Communist-backed National Lib eration Committee's Andre Lubaya. But the N.L.C. could still prove a joker in Tshombe's hand: Leftist Antoine Gizenga still languished in forced exile last week on an island at the mouth of the Congo River. Not until the conditions of his freedom are established can any new government count on genuine reconciliation...