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While she is away, Nina enters by the spare room window. She takes a bath, and pulls her half-dressed brother into the water. Meanwhile Frances has had a contraceptive diaphragm fitted and dispensed at a local family planning clinic; she then goes to play lawn bowls with a group of friends, most of them people much older than herself. Charles ...
Charley recounts how he had fallen into a similar conversation with another man in a bar years before, and that man had told him to go to Acme Travel Bureau, a small travel agency located on the 200 block of West 42nd Street in New York City, and hint to the proprietor that he would like to "escape" from Earth and its ever-growing list of problems.
In stories about a family or other settings with a "father figure" or "mother figure", a "golden child" is a child (including an adult child) or a subordinate member of the organization who is praised as the "perfect one" and protected from criticism, while their siblings (or other members of the organization) are unnoticed for their ...
A. Robins – vaudeville's "The Banana Man" and "One Man Music Shop" Alan Clay – international clown teacher and performer; author of Angels Can Fly, a Modern Clown User Guide; Alex the Jester – "King of Jesters," speaks a contemporary version of the medieval gibberish language Grammelot. Andy Kaufman – American comic and practitioner of ...
The play begin with Beth and Connie sitting watching carols on television. Connie, in a one-sided conversation, gives praises for her late brother, Gordon. She does not seem to mind she spent childhood in the shadow of her brother, blatantly the family favourite and given all the support she never had.
The story of the Harlequinade revolves around a comic incident in the lives of its five main characters: Harlequin, who loves Columbine; Columbine's greedy and foolish father Pantaloon (evolved from the character Pantalone), who tries to separate the lovers in league with the mischievous Clown; and the servant, Pierrot, usually involving ...
Under all that clown makeup is actor Jeff Ward, best known for playing Deke Shaw in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and as Roy Hardaway in Brand New Cherry Flavor. And you won't believe the transformation ...
The Mayor of Halloween Town is depicted as a short, fat man who has the appearance of a giant candy corn with a cone-shaped double-sided head, wearing a tall hat, a spider necktie, and a ribbon of office that says "Mayor" on it. His head has two faces: one is peach-skinned, rosy-cheeked, and smiling while the other is white-skinned, pale and ...