And this is all merely the warm-up - the legal knockabout before the trial itself can begin.

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And then, again, there are the smaller feet of the boys and girls, mostly shod in knockabout sneakers.

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He seems to belong to a different play, one of long, anguished soliloquies interspersed with occasional knockabout intermissions with great sports figures of the past.

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But I wonder whether this knockabout has actually been a distraction because, on the whole, it seems that people do not live in a demythologised world.

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There is some art-world satire, which is gross knockabout stuff, and lists of the best names to drop frequently occupy up to half a page of unredeemed showing-off.

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Trog, aka Wally Fawkes, has her as a jolly knockabout figure with tombstone teeth pulling pints in the bar of the TV soap "EastEnders, " but the angry brigade, Martin Rowson and Steve Bell of the Guardian and Dave Brown of the Independent, emphasize the grotesque.

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