Clowns are, in a sense, anarchic, but they also have to be sensitive as to where they create anarchy and chaos. |
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Clowns relieve tension during performances by artists such as acrobats, flying trapezists and jugglers. |
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They also wish to control the world through the use of prestidigitation, strengthened by their alliance with the Secret Order of Clowns and Balloon Animal Artisans. |
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For the younger visitors there's The Clowns Orchestra, Hi-Hat Hector The Tallest Bubble Blower Around, the Tots Playzone and the Sealegs Safari undercover adventure play area. |
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Politicians regularly complain about the public perception of them as being clowns, buffoons or chancers. |
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Diners at an Italian restaurant did a double take after seeing 24 young clowns arriving for dinner. |
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But, unlike the old circus shows with their clowns and candyfloss, this performance is governed by a sophisticated theatrical sensibility. |
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Three clowns out of a Fellini film throw their nets over a group of Korean sailors who don't know what to make of so much occidental stupidity. |
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The free-for-all was an event where the clowns fought each other with oversized mauls for ten minutes. |
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They bring life to themes of solitude and enclosure with humour as clowns, acrobats, jugglers, dancers and off-kilter trampolinists. |
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Philip Franks's production is set on a deserted seaside pier haunted by the ghosts of circus clowns. |
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The Hick-Ups sing songs about one-horse towns, rodeo clowns and girls with holes in their stockings. |
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Complete sets of MacDonald's cricketers or Taddy's clowns rank among the blue chips of cartophily. |
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The clowns, besides trying their best to amuse the children, demonstrate their acrobatic skills. |
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The company is helping to send magicians, musicians, puppeteers, storytellers and clowns throughout the year. |
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There were clowns on stilts, eerily taking giant strides around the square. |
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Sam is in my class, and we are the trouble makers, or you could call us the class clowns. |
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As well as the actor, the opening also featured Scottish pipers, clowns and a barbecue. |
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But the moment the four clowns stop passing paper between themselves and start chucking it into the stalls, the atmosphere changes. |
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Seeing as how I was being billed by the hour in the parkade, I asked the security clowns if I would have to pay for the time I was being booted. |
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We laughed as classmates screwed up patty-cake and made clowns of themselves. |
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Tweedy, who is one of three clowns touring with the circus, made a big impact with the 150 children at the infant school. |
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Thousands of young ones, all raggle-taggle but gathered together, all prepared to be clowns and make idiots of themselves. |
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And now is the time for all of us to take a closer and careful look at these circus clowns! |
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These clowns are fronting for somebody or something else, they're too stupid to be pulling this off on their own. |
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Other attractions at the circus include clowns, acrobats, wire-walkers, trapeze artists, an equestrian display and jugglers. |
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As with the turquoise mortgage of the katsina clowns, the idea of reciprocity is central. |
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Every year they just book these same unfunny clowns and stupid circus acts. |
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It's easy to forget that some people have good memories of clowns and circuses because it seems so foreign to us. |
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There are trapeze artists, clowns, aerialists and the like, but there are other, darker elements. |
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The circus boasts camels, zebras, llamas, dogs, pigeons and ducks, as well as clowns, jugglers, wire-walkers and trapeze artists. |
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Other attractions at the circus include clowns, acrobats, Kenyan warriors, wire-walkers, trapeze artists, an equestrian display and jugglers. |
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Most of the banquets lasted 8-10 hours, with some pauses for a concert or a representation with clowns, circus and funambulists. |
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For the children there were clowns, stilt walkers, magicians, fire-eaters and the real old favourite of a Punch and Judy show. |
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Mike, 38, a company director, has 70 fish, including the Nemo clowns, angel fish and anemone fish. |
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What I didn't expect to see was how amused the predominantly white female studio audience was with these clowns. |
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Every carnival has a ringmaster and plenty of barkers, bearded ladies, strong men, wild animals and sad clowns. |
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The tune evokes clowns in bloomers and lion tamers, even for those who have never been under the big top. |
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But some clowns are concerned about the legal risks of throwing custard pies, what with society becoming more litigious. |
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But while the most appealing of clowns is Pierrot, pale, lean and dreamy, with cooks, at least until recently, the popular one was the fat guy. |
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There will also be face painters, clowns, artists, magicians and creatures of all shapes and sizes roving through the festival site. |
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Some clowns prefer to wear bright and gaudy makeup, while others have a fondness for ludicrous masks. |
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The animal-free circus troupe has its roots in tradition, keeping their focus on garish costumes, amazing acrobatics, magicians and clowns. |
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I might answer this by distinguishing the comedy of clowns from the romantic comedy of manners. |
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So clowning features high on the agenda, although clowns aren't exactly embodiments of leadership or teambuilding skills. |
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You launch circus clowns from a teeter-totter, pop colorful balloons and catch the poor flying fellows, lest they be ill-affected by gravity. |
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Gradually, in other songs, Dylan gives more license to clowns and fools, gargoyles and grotesques. |
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He played the schnook with believable restraint, leaving the Marx Brothers, Jerry Lewis and Lou Costello to play the clowns. |
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The tight fitting black and white clothing is quite the opposite of the clowns colourful baggy trousers with braces, and giant floppy shoes. |
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It's a miracle we've escaped another hit, and it's no thanks to anything these clowns have done. |
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More and more actors, jesters, prestidigitators, clowns and comic singers are chasing fewer and fewer parts. |
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As Modes had promised beforehand, the march ended with the clowns piling into three small cars and driving off. |
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He, too, is an extension of More, both of his comic side in general and of his love of fools and clowns in particular, as reported by Erasmus. |
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The talented threesome are acrobats, jugglers, clowns and illusionists, all rolled into one. |
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Throughout the plays the resonant names of the great are subjected to comic metamorphoses in the mouths of his clowns and fools. |
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I'm writing an article on coulrophobia and scary clowns for my Feature Writing class at university. |
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While making a hasty exit, Mike and Debbie come face to face with some of the scariest clowns ever to set down this side of the midway! |
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It's time for Democrats who are sick of such shenanigans to speak up and repudiate these clowns. |
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In between the shows, the comic interludes were performed to keep the audience in good spirits with twinkle-footed clowns. |
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Pierce small holes through the hands, and string the clowns together with thin silver cord. |
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We watch people breathing fire and dancing with poi, clowns and jugglers, stalls selling jewellery and hats and hot candied almonds. |
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He had real guts but you clowns are just a bunch of capitalist money-makers. |
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With over 100 tons of equipment, shows will include acrobats, trapeze artists, clowns, balancers, horses, dogs, tigers, showgirls and loads more. |
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I'd be the dad that clowns quite a lot and shows off to the kids and makes them laugh because I can be a show-off. |
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Juggling, walking on stilts and even dressing up as clowns were some of the activities on offer. |
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For two hours he had watched clowns and contortionists and acrobats and fliers and singers. |
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The private Cirque du Soleil show will feature more than 70 artists from around the world, including gymnasts, acrobats, dancers and clowns. |
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The Moscow State Circus is famous worldwide thanks to its spectacular displays from acrobats, clowns, gymnasts, trapeze artists and lots more. |
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When she asked one of the clowns if he was a vet, he avoided the question, like all blowhards do. |
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The American team performed like a bunch of clowns, me, included, of course. |
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Luckily, we had four or five guys in the group who must have been the class clowns at school. |
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These clowns might be good public speakers, but a tour of both sites shows that they're just the sock puppets for a very slick marketing effort. |
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Trapeze artists, clowns, and ragamuffins were his companions in this enclosed universe of painted horses and pedlars with their orientalist wares. |
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Efforts to pin down the exact nature of jibe and jest have challenged pundits, professional fools, antic clowns, studious gagmen, comedians of every kind and medium. |
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With their real selves hidden from view, clowns can manage to play the silliest of practical jokes upon each other, without causing offence to anyone. |
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Entertainment was provided by acrobats, clowns and sometimes gladiators. |
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Street entertainers including clowns, acrobats, jugglers, and even walking wheeled dustbins and flower planters will entertain the crowds around town centre streets. |
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Musicians, dancers, acrobats, clowns, actors, mimes and every hybrid in between entertain and educate audiences of kids, their parents and teachers. |
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What's a circus without trained animals, jugglers or clowns? |
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Sure, there's that fringe group of weirdos who are deathly afraid of clowns. |
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Today, that destination is a world peopled with clowns, gymnasts, panthers, snakes, men and women, young and old, in brilliant reds and greens and luminous yellows. |
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At Longleat the children enjoyed the safari park, saw the gorillas watching television and were entertained by clowns organised by the Rotary Club. |
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To add fun and colour there are, of course, entertainers such as clowns, jugglers, magicians and singers out and about at the main sites and on the streets. |
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They will be aided in their dark deed by the union of circus clowns, who, beneath their veneer of jollity, are brutal and merciless taunters of the innocent. |
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Today, a small corner of the building is packed with spindly, aspiring clowns filling out forms on folding chairs. |
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Betty is a keen gardener, and she collects clowns, thimbles and candles. |
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Endorsed by jester, clowns, and merry andrews all over the world! |
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For French law enforcement, the evil clowns are, it has to be said, no laughing matter. |
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If there are clowns and incompetents and criminals in your midst and you protect them, you're just as bad as they are and you command no respect at all from anyone. |
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They are performing like clowns in a circus, entertaining the public. |
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The Muttiah Muralitharan circus has a ringmaster, enough clowns to fill a big top and a disbelieving audience gaping at each extraordinary swing from low point to low point. |
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They tend to be shriekers, protestors, clowns, the whole bit. |
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Clearly, we all have something to learn from these clowns and tumblers. |
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It must have been the end of the school day for them as a flurry of wannabe clowns, tumblers and tightrope walkers came out of the bar as I was passing by. |
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It's billed as the simple tale of an Australian political superhero and his valiant battles with assorted mugs, dummies, gutless spivs, clowns, fools and scumbags. |
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The children are doubling up with laughter, pointing at each other gleefully as the clowns knock their noisemakers on their little heads as they run past. |
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There we were, four or five clowns and buffoons in silly outfits waiting together backstage to walk out on a wooden platform with a brass pole in the center. |
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For the children jugglers and clowns drew cheers and applause and the area was filled with the sounds of the Caribbean steel band and Skipton Brass. |
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A family area pandered to the younger element of festival goers, with clowns, jesters and storytellers all providing entertainment for children and the young at heart. |
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He, meanwhile, comes from a family of circus clowns and jugglers. |
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This was the time also when the circus clowns, saltimbanques and harlequins began to appear on his canvases, with their own smiling kinds of loneliness. |
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Her mother was a trapeze artist and her father was also a circus performer and, as a child, she travelled widely and was inspired to learn to stiltwalk by the circus clowns. |
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The class grew louder as one of the class clowns stood up to rant a bit. |
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What a pathetic bunch of clowns on both sides of the argument! |
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So the problem here lies not merely in the President's own problems, which, I think, are severe enough by themselves, but in this bunch of clowns around him. |
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The clowns are delivering their aid in the most personal way, with not just a joke and a smile, but hugs and tears and the pell-mell of circus-like performances. |
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A free festival circus will be in the park where acrobats, clowns, fire eaters, illusionists, jugglers and stilt walkers will entertain the crowds. |
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Imperial Storm Troopers are deadeyes compared to these clowns. |
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I worry there is more evil in clowns than in any terrorist organization, and under no circumstances will I tolerate dolls, puppets, or ventriloquist dummies. |
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Slip the maligned term 'street theatre' into any conversation and you are guaranteed comic eye-rolling and wincing memories of zany clowns on stilts and wacky jugglers. |
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Augustine is supposed to have said that bringing clowns, actors, and dancers into a house was like inviting in a gang of unclean spirits. |
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These include juggling, bungee trapeze, a Russian swing, an acrobatic bicycle, miming clowns, boleadoras, pole climbing and jumping. |
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Last night Vicky and Ferne McCann dressed as clowns and endured a Horror Flying Circus suspended high above the camp to win meals for the group. |
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Activities Sunday included puppet shows, dog shows, photo opportunities with Daisy Duck, clowns, jugglers, a petting zoo and pony rides. |
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The clowns will also be performing skills with devil sticks, poi, spinning plates, juggling clubs, and many other objects. |
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Parque Teniente Guerrero is a park located downtown with a public library and weekend entertainment by clowns. |
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Joseph Grimaldi, the most celebrated of English clowns, is considered the father of modern clowning. |
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Zippos Circus said it was told by council officials that the show could not go on unless the clowns dropped the musical part of their act. |
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Awesome clowns, fabulous magicians, live bunny rabbit, balloon animals, comedy magic, face painting, website for pictures. |
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The Absurdist Pipe Band, a group of bagpipe players dressed as clowns, also try their luck. |
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World renowned Russian clown Slava Polunin and his company of clowns are being featured at the ongoing Bahrain Summer Festival. |
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Rodeo clowns entertain crowds during and between rodeo events, such as bull riding and steer roping. |
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Many of these plays contained comedy, devils, villains and clowns. |
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They will also be entertained by clowns and magicians and can play with colourful cartoon characters like Tele Tubbies, Barney the Bear and Shrek. |
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They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns. |
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We are paying for these clowns, while we live on the bread line. |
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Why not have a figure with a red veil draped over the head, why not have Kachina clowns, why not have androgynous costuming by Donna Karan, why not have some big black rocks? |
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In the manner of touring companies of the Renaissance, the clowns, street performers, minstrels, or troubadours travel from city to city to play their comedies. |
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What if clowns were pedophobic? They wouldn't be very happy. |
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The circus, complete with costumed performers, clowns, up-beat music, exotic animals and colorful personalities, has cast its magic over generations of Americans. |
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Classic circus treats, such as unicyclists, clowns and dancers, will also make an appearance alongside musical acts, gymnasts, human pyramids and hula-hoopers. |
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