's colorful children's clothes were awfully clownish and seemed to be falling out of fashion.

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Its more than 40-year history is a tale of brilliance and blown chances, clownish marketing stunts and high-stakes legal dramas.

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While the clownish antics of circus theater isn't really Mr. Morse's bag, a poignant scene between Pippin and his grandmother Berthe (Andrea Martin) connected his heart to the production.

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She spent time in front of a mirror, retraining the shape of her mouth, forcing her lips into a long oval "O" to evoke Ms. Garland's face in midbelt but pulling back when the look turned clownish.

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His clownish behaviour has continued.

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Readers and viewers who know Murdoch purely as a name or as one of those figures so wealthy, and granted such frictionless mobility by their wealth, that they never seem to be in the part of the world that you expect them to be were startled to see a senior gent, with sparse white hair and a clownish smile, descend upon London.

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