He is something of a combined public jester, soft-core political agitator, and freelance director of recreation.
He sees his role partly as that of court jester, challenging the received wisdom.
S. Naipaul, who visited him in 1979, likened Mr Khalkhali to a jester at his own court.
The politically-shrewd and often critical bitcoin seeks independent validation like a jester in the court of monetary sovereigns.
To poach a phrase from Hamlet's mouth, spoken as he held the jester Yorick's skull: Alas, poor Richard!
On Sunday, a computer hacker who calls himself "The Jester" claimed responsibility for the cyber attack that affected WikiLeaks.
Culture used to play a poor court jester in a territory where commerce is king and venal is vogue.
You may tire of having to kick this thing like it's a lazy court jester to get it to move.
But now two other companies have challenged Google for the jester's crown Twitter, a microblogging service, and Zappos, an online shoe-shop.
Jester said that charge may change after detectives meet with prosecutors.
Rigoletto, the Duke's court jester in Piave's libretto, is transformed by Mayer into a hanger-on and comic along the lines of Don Rickles and Joey Bishop.
Looks like a game of chess has gone awry and a big jester--oh, 20 feet--is on its back thrown from the roof of Mardi Gras World.
Dogs have been sheared and coloured so that they resemble a bison, a court jester and a scorpion at a series of US "extreme dog grooming contests".
On his travels abroad, his entourage included his own trainer, golf pro, dietician, manicurist, secretary, and even a midget taken on as a sort of court jester.
Distributor Authentic Beverages, craft brewer Jester King, and brewpub Zax challenged these and other rules as violations of the First Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Commerce Clause.
One plucky soul was determined to prove otherwise, however, and ran onto the stage in a jester's hat during Spain's performance - the first Eurovision stage invasion since 1964.
The extreme nationalist, rich, Liberal Democrats, led by Russia's de facto court jester, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who got 6%, act more as a lightning rod for the authorities than a serious political force.
" And by illuminating uncomfortable truths -- about racism and sexism and anti-Semitism -- he's been called "our jester, asking us to see ourselves as we really are, determined that we laugh ourselves sane.
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Conversely, works like Orazio Mochi's finely modeled statuette of a "Black Court Jester" (c. 1600-10) and a Flemish or French statuette of a "Black Woman at her Bath" (1580s) reveal the aesthetic delight European sculptors took in the use of bronze with various patinations as a natural medium to represent the variety of African skin tones.
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