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play the clown



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Did that make it hard to play the clown?

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2015

“I’d love to do a movie with Shah Rukh Khan in America, where he gets to play the clown and I get the girl,” he said.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2012

Unlike Margaret, he does not enjoy dancing, because of a childhood polio attack which has left him with a stiffened leg, but he is happy to play the clown at parties.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another painfully funny novel, this one about a Polish piano mover in the Midwest, by a writer who can play the clown and Hamlet too.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once or twice, indeed, in the earlier chapters we have promise of a more peculiar story when we read of Mrs. Morris's objection to seeing her husband play the clown.

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir




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