Normally used of someone who is deliberately acting in a funny way, trying to amuse others, though it can also be applied to someone who has unwittingly done something stupid. ‘Bloody clown’ as used in The Country Girls, by Edna...

A clown enriched knows neither relation nor friend. (French) No fine clothes can hide the clown....

CLOWNS. The term clown is used here as a gloss for a cluster of figures that appear in the religious events of various peoples and that have certain attributes in common. It is, therefore, a term of analysis employed in thinking about the place of such...

Clowns are comic performers, stereotypically characterized by their colored wigs, stylistic makeup, outlandish costumes, and unusually large footwear. Clowning, in its most basic form, can be described as one form of drama without a fourth wall, however...

Video Clown Reviewed by Bill Ellet for Training Media Review I'm not sure what it is about the topic of diversity that inspires creativity and provokes course designers to avoid the safe, conventional formulas common with other training topics. Consider Blue...

Monica Drake. Clown Girl. Portland, Oregon: Hawthorne Books &. Literary Arts, 2007. $15.95 paper (ISBN 0-9766311-5-6), 297 pages. Reviewed by Jeffrey Sartain Monica Drake, a frequent contributor to two of the Pacific Northwest's premiere altweeklies, The Stranger and The Portland Mercury, makes...

Justice: Mike Nifong weeps at the consequences of persecuting three college kids for a crime they did not commit. Meanwhile, Scooter Libby enters prison for a crime that never occurred.With tears in his eyes, Durham County District Attorney Nifong on Friday announced he was resigning,...

The men and women in white face-paint and polka-dot bow-ties sang hymns and said prayers as one of their number rode a unicycle down the aisle of an austere east London church.The group was gathered for a memorial service Sunday, but since it was for...