The problem here is that just because Hitler was a clownish demagogue, it doesn't follow that every clownish demagogue is the next Hitler.
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A clownish interlude in the republic's decline, not the Rubicon itself.
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Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, has irritated his counterparts with clownish comments.
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His clownish, abstract, cartoonish and grotesque works reflected his bent for provocation.
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"King of the Hill" was an animated show full of clownish characters.
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His clownish protagonist, the bureaucratic oaf Ma Daode, is a corrupt, greedy hack.
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Clownish as that might sound, there is a chilling subtext for global competitors.
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Indeed, anyone hoping for another clownish or unpresidential public performance seemed a little disappointed.
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Ted Cruz (R-TX), whose complaints about alleged social media bias seem almost clownish.
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In reality, they are clownish, pitiful figures more akin to Larry, Curly, and Moe.
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They are monstrous and clownish, but more than just figures of fright or mockery.
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Ballmer is remembered as a big sweaty clownish figure because of videos like this.
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A few years back they had Ahmadinejad, a populist, right-wing, clownish Iranian president.
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Indeed, anyone hoping for another clownish or un-presidential public performance seemed a little disappointed.
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Some fans applauded the move, while other criticized the "clownish sidekick" as a gay stereotype.
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Nigel Farage, the clownish leader of the Brexit campaign, is the natural ally of Trump.
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Sure, he's clownish and boorish, but hey, he has appointed a great Supreme Court justice.
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" Elias added: "It shows how clownish he can be around these issues where he's thin-skinned.
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Perhaps that's why wherever you go these days vanity has followed you like a clownish dog.
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Mr. Hanks, in his best clownish mode, scrunches his features into all manner of amusing grimaces.
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There's the obvious ridicule and minstrelsy, like the clownish roles on Two Broke Girls or Dads.
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Take Archie and the Blossom twins' hair — so red that it's clownish, like dyed cotton candy.
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The multiple stripes and squares tumbled together in a not entirely successful mix of clownish proportions.
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Though the incidents often come off as clownish, they make him seem more authentic than normal politicians.
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And while Ray is hapless and almost heroically stupid, Connie is a more complicated, less clownish figure.
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The British prime minister is more grim tactician now than "the clownish, cuddly fellow" of the past.
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"The Irony of the Negro Policeman," a crazy-quilt jumble of passages in varied techniques, is clownish.
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Volle's impersonation is especially convincing: he captures the antic, almost clownish personality that many of Wagner's contemporaries recalled.
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History repeats itself—another maddening interview with the BBC, another sex scandal, another leadership bid—now with clownish exaggeration.
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The real fear in the Trump era should be that everything will become disorganized, chaotic, degenerate, clownish and incompetent.
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Even in an over-the-top series that throws out all the rules, Zahn's clownish, fat-suited performance doesn't work.
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The Never Trumper declensionist narrative rests upon the distinction between the once respectable Dinesh and the now clownish Dinesh. pic.twitter.
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I will grant that D'Souza's 1991 book "Illiberal Education" is a less ludicrously clownish book than his most recent productions.
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A less clownish way to accomplish the same goal would be to treat Clinton's point with some level of nuance.
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In one picture of Hogan, from the 1890s, he looks more like a sock puppet, wearing a clownish pointed cap.
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Who makes that line even more clownish by padding it out with an idiom ("so far as I can see")?
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Without high definition or color, Hollywood's early makeup artists didn't need to worry whether their work might appear clownish offscreen.
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I went through a lot of makeup remover and still thought I looked slightly clownish in photos from the night.
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No. if anything it's more worrisome when you see how clownish Trump has been in the face of a crisis.
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And that was useful because it gave us a view of the political movement he represents, without the clownish behavior.
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Every move he made was puerile, a clownish collection of gestures that undermined both the plot and the series it served.
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Throughout his tenure in the Senate Mr Franken tried to shed his clownish persona and establish himself as a serious policymaker.
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Or, as others would put it, a clownish display of toxic masculinity that results in unnecessary injury and ruins everyone's night.
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But in some forums online, the president was mocked, with social media users describing him as goofy, impulsive, clownish and cute.
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In this regard, at least, we seem to have a president whose temperament may be clownish but whose policies are conventional.
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Its prime ministers, by turns weak or clownish, have been unable to place their mark on a country many see as ungovernable.
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It captures the bizarre blend of wishful thinking, clownish self-importance, and cold calculation that characterized many of the Nazis' powerful enablers.
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His affect seemed even more clownish, and he had no experience running for office and no chance of winning any party support.
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So it seems that Rondinone has achieved the right balance of darkness and light in the early months of a particularly clownish presidency.
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By investing time and technology into Johnston's clownish role, this play avoids commodifying or neatly parceling the Women's Liberation into any one box.
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Mistaken-identity high jinks ensue, as does a practical joke on Malvolio by the clownish Sirs Toby (Christopher Ryan Grant) and Andrew (Mr.
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Roman, who pretends to be a clownish vulgarian, is actually quite shrewd, but so emotionally stunted that he can only express intimacy onanistically.
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We will talk about the law and strategy as we eagerly consume every hour of what will be a clownish but captivating spectacle.
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But naturally, some people find Roma and the Sisters off-putting because of their clownish makeup or the perception that their work mocks religion.
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It is an old colonial tale, the hapless provincial who becomes worldly, though in Chan's case he doesn't evolve beyond being a clownish parvenu.
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I decided to spin through Google Patents and gather just a few of the most clownish patents on the books, because I hate myself.
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This is rule by Al Czervik, Rodney Dangerfield's character in "Caddyshack": a reckless, clownish boor surrounded by sycophants, determined to blow up all convention.
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"In a sense, you're getting the truer Boris Johnson, which is not the clownish, cuddly fellow," said Sonia Purnell, another of Mr. Johnson's biographers.
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After the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Indecline hung clownish Ku Klux Klan effigies from a tree in a Richmond park.
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So three years later, when a clownish insurgent called Donald Trump leapt to the top of the Republican polls, data journalists had their ammunition ready.
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While Stalin was still alive, the pair were reduced to doing clownish chest-bumps to distract the big guy from a potential moment of rage.
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Then, during class, the only question he was asked, usually by a clownish kid in the back row, was whether he could please repeat something.
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When lightheartedness resurfaces, it doesn't necessarily work, as in a clownish scene in which Mr. Levin animates a pair of coats, turning them into puppets.
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When we see those clownish figures in their Nazi uniforms pretending to be human, pretending to be something more than they are, pretending to be important.
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Last week, he ripped Trump for a "clownish" Rose Garden speech in which Trump refused to say whether he had "tapes" of his conversation with Comey.
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For decades, his lifestyle spent hobnobbing with A-listers has been his sole social currency and public persona—a clownish caricature of a comically lavish mogul.
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Mr. Magni is asked to perform certain clownish tasks — manipulating a bowler hat, walking up a slippery spiral ramp — that Mr. Houben scores and eventually tallies.
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They were also in the second season of a renaissance directed by its "bellicose, red-faced, and clownish" as well as frequently inebriated president, Larry MacPhail.
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The unpredictable fun in the freighted conversation can be chalked up to Mostel's clownish temperament and training, but it also relates to the timing of the interview.
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"Jackie has become over-the-top clownish, to the point of ridicule," said Ethan Thompson, professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
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His next exploitative venture — a clownish news channel or some twisted reality show that features his scowling mug daily — now has an enthusiastic, fired up fan base.
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Because it stretched so long — and because Hal Steinbrenner did not react in anger to Rodriguez's repeated clownish antics — he still had time to save the relationship.
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Reza's latest work, a giant clownish take on Razak's face, went viral throughout southeast Asia and has become the icon for an anti-corruption push in Malaysia.
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She also uses Perfect365, a makeup simulation app, though the artist's garish eye shadow and clownish blushes are surely not what its marketing team has in mind.
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Chinese pop songs and a clownish ballet dancer feature, as well as an imaginary run-in with the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe at the Berlin nightclub Berghain.
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That spirit apparently motivated many Trump voters, who didn't mind that their tribune spoke in clownish generalities, possessed no relevant experience and exhibited an itchy trigger finger.
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The powder looked so pigmented and obvious when I initially put it on that I looked a bit clownish and like a kid playing with her mother's makeup.
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The clownish English Defence League staged a small demonstration near the Manchester Arena, but its members were shouted down by an angry shopper and moved on by police.
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While many view Trump as a clownish figure with orange skin and the hair of a puppet, there is growing concern that his candidacy poses a legitimate threat.
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Instead, conspiracy theorists suggested that the Russians picked a clownish British music promoter to arrange a meeting by expressly promising compromising information from the Russian government in writing.
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Delivered by two clownish virtuosos from the troupe the Grand Falloons, this entertainment combines juggling, slapstick, magic, bubble sculpture and live music ranging from Brahms to Irving Berlin.
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It was on the high end of the sentencing guidelines range, but only because prosecutors "stacked" counts against Stone, who is generally viewed as a clownish political provocateur.
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Mostel plays it for laughs as well as for subtleties — he calls Terkel "Studsy" and the audio recording lets us hear Terkel's cackle, along with Mostel's clownish physical gags.
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Before the start, British newspapers ridiculed the idea of a Mexican yachting crew; at least one cartoon depicted a boatful of clownish, tequila-swilling sombrero-wearers under patched sails.
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Beverley Magennis, Los Ranchos, N.M. In his cover story, Hylton describes Close as Lear-like, a hermit teetering on the brink of senescence, his expression childlike, his appearance clownish.
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But, for the past two or three years, Joji had just been going through the motions of his clownish career, turned off, he said, by the increasingly "toxic" Internet.
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Known for his often bumbling persona, which some find refreshing and others call clownish or a calculated political tactic, Johnson's career has been marked by a series of gaffes.
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The pastime harks back to the days when Newfoundlanders supplemented meager winter diets with fresh meat on the wing, eating everything from clownish puffins to the great northern gannet.
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In fact, Hitler was seen as a clownish figure who was disliked by the country's conservative establishment and who was never able to crack 40 percent of the vote.
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Euron Greyjoy — who in the books is a less clownish and much more sinister figure, with seeming magical ambitions — won the kingsmoot and was named king of the Iron Islands.
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Yet Mr. Park also slips in little jokes, comic line readings and clownish faces that ease the tension, lighten the mood and suggest there's freedom in laughing into the void.
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By then, of course, the dehumanized caricature with the scarlet, clownish mouth was imprinted in the popular imagination and firmly established as the fixation of choice for Ku Klux Klansmen.
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There are also several kitsch rehashes of historical motifs, including Nadia Naveau's clownish plaster busts of Figaro or a curly-haired courtier (whose Rococo curls seem more 18th-century anyway).
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But the comedian's wryly clownish antics as the preening, not-especially bright owner of several fast-fashion stores are in service of a story that feels sloppy and overly broad.
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Recent historical scholarship suggests that Arendt did, indeed, underestimate Eichmann's ideological passion for National Socialism: Much of his clownish bumbling in Jerusalem may have been a conscious, self-exculpating performance.
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The politician is a man named Jimmy Morales, a clownish talk-show comedian who ran on the ticket of an extreme right-wing political party called the National Convergence Front.
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He sees many of the new radicals as little better: one reason he joined UKIP was to keep Brexit from being dominated in the public mind by the clownish Nigel Farage.
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A new biography portrays Adolf Hitler as a clownish, deceitful narcissist who took control of a powerful nation thanks to slick propaganda and a dysfunctional elite that failed to block his rise.
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One big difference, however, is that most onlookers (the press included) feel perfectly comfortable calling out Trump's clownish denialism, whereas lukewarmism can be much more slippery, harder to pin down and debate.
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It is very easy to detach ourselves from the potential consequences of a Trump presidency: to see his candidacy as clownish, and simply assume that his outlandish policy ideas would never be implemented.
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Rapper Bow Wow: The youthful star tweeted plans to pimp out First Lady Melania Trump after his uncle, Snoop Dogg, starred in a video where he pointed a gun at a clownish Trump.
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And of course there was that one time a senior German government official told Politico, "People here think Trump is a laughingstock" when touching upon the president's "clownish nature." nordic prime minister meeting.
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For many Russians, however, who were dismayed during Yeltsin's tenure by their country's loss of territory, population, status, and power, and by their president's sometimes-clownish behavior, Vladimir Putin has seemed a savior.
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But using the right liner and shadow formulations are paramount (smudging and fallout can make for a particularly clownish effect) — as is choosing a lower lid shade that works well with your eye color.
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Casting aside his trademark clownish demeanour and rambling delivery, he followed a written script, setting out an ambitious agenda beyond Brexit - promising tax reform, a new social care system, and an economic stimulus package.
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Casting aside his trademark clownish demeanor and rambling delivery, he followed a written script, setting out an ambitious agenda beyond Brexit - promising tax reform, a new social care system, and an economic stimulus package.
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"Abolish ICE" is a clownish, foolhardy publicity stunt by some Democrats — and the sensible leaders and followers of that party should reject it, now, before the party and the country are damaged even more.
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I never tired of the alien feeling of the earth — the moss yielding several inches with each clownish stride, as the surface on either side rose like leavening bread, swelling with the displaced water.
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In her video "Sadie the Saddest Sadist" (2009), Reid Kelley dons clownish makeup and plays the character of Sadie, a female British munitions worker living in 1915 who contracts venereal disease from a sailor.
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It must have been elegant, sitting on what was once one of the tallest buildings in New York City, but now, sitting on the ground, it is a tall clownish cap among the trees.
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Whatever his clownish quirks and failings, Mr. Johnson is a seasoned politician who knows and understands the workings of British politics and is familiar with the continent from which he is separating his country.
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Among many conservatives I know, the view of Trump is that chaotic management, clownish behavior and ideological apostasies are irritants, not calamities, and prices worth paying for deregulation, tax cuts, and conservative courts. Really?
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And in "Ulysses," during the uproarious lament by the clownish Iro, Robert Burt, a veteran of the role, began frantically strumming the harp strings, prompting Wentink to bop him over the head with her score.
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Co-directed by viral YouTube prankster Jesse Wellens, it skewers everything from police violence to the mainstream media, portraying them all as clowns, and portraying white culture more generally as clownish from a black perspective.
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Clearly, Trump wasn't getting much useful advice from people like Papadopoulos and Carter Page, another clownish hanger-on under the microscope in the Russian collusion investigation who lacks the common sense God gave the goose.
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If Johnson became prime minister it would cap an eventful career for the man invariably referred to simply as "Boris", known in Britain and beyond for his clownish persona and disheveled mop of blond hair.
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It's a harrowing cautionary tale showing that democracy can be sabotaged even more diabolically by a trusted insider, respected by most of the press, than by a clownish outsider, disdained by most of the press.
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"To a Greek, Papadopoulos meeting with Kammenos is a bit of an eyeroll because he's seen as a bit of a clownish figure with close ties to the Russians," the official said of the defense minister.
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IN THE mall below a McDonald's restaurant in Hong Kong, excitable children pose for photos next to a statue of the chain's clownish mascot, Ronald, who lounges on a bench, one yellow glove raised in welcome.
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He also has his Moon conjunct Jupiter, which is why he sometimes comes across as jolly and innocuous; his Moon is in Libra conjunct Jupiter in the 3rd house, which is also very convivial and clownish.
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A series of German photo cards of Adolf Hitler gesticulating against a black background are a fascinating mystery: Even setting aside what we know about him, it's hard to locate the charisma in his clownish posturing.
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And while no one wants to be constantly checking in on their lip line after every meal, there's still some wariness associated with thin stick liners and those clownish, overdrawn lips of the '90s — we get it.
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Bill Nelson's campaign paid for a cartoon ad about a law impacting Florida's public beaches, and portraying Republican Rick Scott as a giggling, clownish politician stealing beach access from everyday Floridians to give it to the rich.
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"He was not taken seriously at first by the media, and is still not taken seriously as a presidential candidate by a lot of the media because of his lack of substance and clownish behavior," Ralston said.
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If you need a refresher, in "The Cask of Amontillado," the narrator, Montresor, harbors a longstanding and mysterious grudge against his friend, the clownish Fortunato (who spends the entire story dressed in a jester's cap and costume).
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As the game heats up, and Bobby starts to realize this won't be an easy victory, he loses the clownish showboating, takes off the jacket with his sponsor's logo, and starts to actually work for the win.
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Clownish characters have likely been a part of medicine as long as it's been a distinct field of human expertise and experience, breaking the flow of stressful situations to help doctors and patients manage illness and recovery.
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It wasn't until 2016 that a plurality of Republican voters defied the electoral wisdom of party elites, nominating a clownish demagogue who channeled the id of the far right and was supposed to have no chance of victory.
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Many Russians regard Zhirinovsky as a clownish figure who makes outspoken statements to grab attention but he is also widely viewed as a faithful servant of Kremlin policy, sometimes used to float radical opinions to test public reaction.
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Vox's Matt Yglesias has argued that the best way for Democrats to defeat Trump is to focus on how his policies will hurt working-class people, rather than hitting the president-elect for his outlandish temperament and clownish behavior.
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ONE recent Saturday afternoon three performers, dressed in clownish finery, clambered out of a rusty 1950s pickup truck in a suburb of Havana and spent the next hour cavorting, breakdancing and sashaying for the amusement of a dozen children.
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The prizewinning designs included aprons and martial arts-inspired smocks with graphic lines by Ji Won Choi, delightfully clownish knits by Emma Cleveland, and light ecru jackets sprouting what appeared to be wispy strands of grass by Jacob Olmedo.
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We see her from behind and everything looks lovely, but the first time the camera lands on her face, viewers can see that Bebe didn't manage to achieve the Ralph Lauren vibe: Marnie is heavily made up, clownish even.
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Some of these—a clownish rendering of his father and his dog, his wife's family on vacation at the sea—can be read as documents of a corrupted history, but they're also just snapshots, moments in any ordinary life.
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I seem to have no problem with Dyansty Handbag's "FASCIST DICTATORSHIP MAKEUP TUTORIAL" (2016), a hilarious sendup of the YouTube genre that mixes foundation tips with a step-by-step tutorial in transforming your face into a horrifically clownish Trump mask.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - "Black Pete", a clownish figure in black face paint that is part of Dutch traditional winter holiday celebrations, leads to discrimination and bullying of black children and must be changed, a national children's rights defender said on Friday.
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Esparza, dressed in street clothes, wears none of the garish makeup that has come to be associated with Brecht stagings, and it is thrilling to watch his mobile face shift with protean speed from clownish indulgence to fury to deceptive vacuity.
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After all, the petty, self-dealing pols that have been the norm in Baltimore for generations—Catherine Pugh is a particularly clownish example, but not quite an outlier—wouldn't be able to make any of this work on their own.
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Beyond just actor and character, Depp played Jack Sparrow as a sort of a mockery of his public image, parodying his "bad boy" and "rebel" reputation by becoming a clownish version of himself, but still quick, clever, mysterious, and always two steps ahead.
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It can be hard to find a shade of blush or lipstick that won't look clownish against fair skin, and things like foundation and bronzer often look fine in the store but then quickly take on an orange cast on the skin.
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The rise to one of the four great offices of state was the latest twist in an eventful career for the man invariably referred to simply as "Boris", known in Britain and beyond for his clownish persona and disheveled mop of platinum hair.
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Milne's subtle verbal wit survives in those early shorts — which were later combined into the 1977 feature The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh — but the character designs are bolder than Shepard's elegant smudges, and the humor tends toward the broad and clownish.
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The rise to one of the four great offices of state was the latest twist in an eventful career for the man invariably referred to simply as "Boris", known in Britain and beyond for his clownish persona and dishevelled mop of platinum hair.
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Ignore for now the clownish jawboning, as if the White House can dictate the legislative calendar, or the fact that the president is the kind of simple-minded autocrat who might actually think he can fire Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader.
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Dubbed "The Trump Bump," the package was set to print after he lost the election, to remind readers that while Trump might have been a brief, clownish eruption on the American body politic's rump, he belonged to—and fed—an ominous global pattern.
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North Korea's deep poverty and the apparent clownish nature of its leaders have sustained the illusion that its nuclear program could be bought out, the regime itself could be waited out, and that its largely concealed crimes against humanity could be tuned out.
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The most recent — as opposed to most famous — time a clownish demagogue used electoral politics to seize power in the face of a discredited political establishment and an ineffective and divided opposition was Silvio Berlusconi's various stints as prime minister of Italy.
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Beneath the surface, Blippi and Steezy Grossman share two traits: a willingness to debase themselves — be it clownish antics or taking a literal dump — for entertainment, and a methodical, calculated effort to use social media and its algorithms to reach as many eyeballs as possible.
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In a deeply reported and nuanced profile in The Weekly Standard, Alice B. Lloyd asks how Dinesh D'Souza went from being "one of the cleverest polemical journalists on the right" to his current status as a clownish provocateur whose antics often embarrass serious conservatives.
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Beyond powers of speech and intellect, Mr. Adams imbued his rabbits with trembling fears, clownish wit, daring, a folklore of proverbs and poetry, and a language called Lapine, complete with a glossary: "silflay" (going up to feed), "hraka" (droppings), "tharn" (frozen by fear), "elil" (enemies).
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But that was because for a long while, I thought Maxwell, although a very interesting villain, was a buffoonish, clownish character who was acting on his own — that SAIMR wasn't real, that he was sitting by himself producing these weird documents with clip art and stationery.
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And it must be done, again and again, by those of us who refuse to be absorbed into this brainless, sinister, clownish thing called Trumpism, by those of us who refuse to overlook the fools, frauds and fascists attempting to glide along in his slipstream into respectability.
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It was a clownish moment, and his subsequent Dancing With the Stars debut felt more like an extension of that clownery (Perry would go on to be appointed to a cabinet role as Trump's energy secretary) than an issue of "normalization" like the one that has plagued Spicer.
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Not only did it quickly serve to reinforce the longstanding perception among prisoners—mirroring views held by some in the general public—that the game was rigged against those of lesser means, it shattered inmates' hopes that a clownish villain who preyed on America's fears of crime might finally get his.
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Passionate and famous male fans of the brand include John Waters, who at the age of 46 modeled for Comme des Garçons in Paris in 1992; the writer David Sedaris, who has admitted to compulsively buying the brand's clownish culottes; and Frank Ocean, who named a song after the company.
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If all you ever knew of the country derived from the clownish antics of its prime minister or cultural slag like the Canale 5 television show "Uomini e Donne" — featuring hypertrophied himbos and Sunkist-colored bimbos competing to snare them — it would be hard to believe that La Dolce Vita had ever existed.
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The 1931 short "The Darktown Revue" is a blatant provocation: In addition to featuring a clownish preacher in a black-in-blackface skit, this parade of negative stereotypes opens with a choir performing the minstrel song "Watermelon Time" with an incongruously pretentious solemnity (the essence of what Micheaux's audience might have deemed "dicty").
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The sight of this clownish act of canine gluttony, combined with the very human—disgustingly, disturbingly human—act of gluttony I was involved in down the other end of the table, proved too much for my brother, who stood up, quite calmly, quite placidly, and punched the door that led to the kitchen.
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My greatest regret about ESPN is not that I wasn't harsh enough about Jon Gruden of "Monday Night Football" (I still have reams of unused, really critical notes I'm willing to sell to the highest-bidding TV critic), or that I was too tough on Chris Berman's unwillingness to change his clownish act.
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When she has an affair with a goofy Columbia professor (Jermaine Clement), it only makes her feel worse about herself and her life; she realizes, after the fog of sexual attraction dissipates, that she has upended her world over a clownish person who makes his own granola and kombucha and doesn't really like her much, anyway.
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"(The Russians) have taken Trump's measure and while they are willing to exploit his goofy fixation on Putin and naive sense you can do deals with someone like Putin ... they realize his clownish performance as president makes it really hard for him to deliver on any of the big things that Russia wants," said Andrew Weiss, a former national security council Russia expert.
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Almost all of the works in Fuck the Patriarchy — from stockings by Hanan Sharifa that read "Trust No Man" and hang from the truck's door and the colorful, interlocking circles on Cristina Victor's "100 Days of Action Resistance Flag," to the fabrics, lights, zine, dagger, and clownish antifa makeup tutorials — are objects that, in some sense, amount to a political life and body.
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The First Time I was 24 and starring, along with a bunch of marquee names, in the 1994 Broadway revival of "Grease," prancing around like a Little Richard automaton on crack in 14 inches of clownish, neon-orange rubber hair; a white high-collared spacesuit; cha-cha heels; glittered face — and singing as high and as loud as I could.
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This was a questionable journalistic tactic even when Mr. Trump was just a clownish candidate with little chance of winning, but now that he has been sworn in as president and commander in chief, it does not serve the country or the world to constantly portray him as unhinged, and to make overblown charges of chaos and crisis every day.
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In a New York Times article entitled "The Cost of Telling a #MeToo Story In Australia", actress Yael Stone said the Pirates of the Caribbean actor danced "totally naked" in front of her in their dressing room in a "playful, clownish manner" and used a mirror to watch her showering during a Sydney production of The Diary of A Madman in 2010 and 2011.
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For the 55-year-old prime minister, whose brief tenure has been marked by legal setbacks, scorched-earth politics and unrelenting turmoil, it would be a striking political vindication, one that belies his clownish image and positions him to lead Britain through its most radical transition since the end of World War II. "This is a momentous occasion for our country," Mr. Johnson told workers at a gleaming new factory built by JCB, a British construction-equipment maker in the Midlands, after he had climbed out of the backhoe.
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