Hints and tips:
...More frequent are swipes at Andrew for being a deluded narcissist — a gurning court jester who sees himself as a beloved royal icon....
...Andrew Hill is the FT’s management editor Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil, by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Francis de Véricourt. WH Allen, £20...
...The court jesters are doubling as the town criers....
...I half expected Woody Allen to prance into view wearing his jester’s rig from Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex....
...More impressive are Jacob Ming-Trent as an appealingly laid-back Toby Belch and Andrew Kober as the hapless steward Malvolio....
...But when asked by the Financial Times if he saw himself as court jester or social conscience, using his position to speak out about things that concerned him, he said he had never dared to assume he was...
...British funnymen Frankie Howerd and Benny Hill, jesters to the gentry, doyens of the double entendre, virtually joined at the zeitgeist, were called to the comedy clouds on April 19 and 20 1992....
...These days, he comes across less as the court jester of corporate bureaucracy than as a determined and rational man with very ambitious ideas....
...Before Birch came Andrew Mason, the Groupon founder and ousted chief executive....
...Mr Abrams, the company’s licensed jester, had many odd ideas before he was forced to resign. But he was on to something that time, albeit in a twisted way....
...Does he see himself as a court jester or social conscience, using his position to speak out about things that concern him?...
...Dressed by painter Eugene Berman as surrealist jesters, the men sink into deep plié and shrug their shoulders in exaggerated insouciance....
...In the time-travel escapade Broucek exchanges his suit for a jester outfit, but even here the stagecraft is wooden....
...It is exhilarating to see in this unlikely Balanchine duo – one sprung from the Space Age and the other from the Russian court – the same ingredients of royal pride and jester pluck....
...Older tactics include the court jester and the devil’s advocate. The other striking lesson of Iraq is that a change at the top can work wonders....
...Groups of beery young men turned up as court jesters, convicts, gauchos (with straw hats, ponchos and Bermuda shorts) and gamekeepers, straight out of D. H. Lawrence....
...Contrast New’s naturalness with the artificially hearty renditions of Toby Belch, Andrew Aguecheek and Fabian, played by Marjorie Yates, Annabel Leventon and Joanne Howarth as music-hall “drag kings” of...
...Sadly the maledizione (curse) that haunts Verdi’s opera was all too real on Saturday – most obviously in the indisposition of Alan Opie, one of the UK’s most esteemed baritones, whose club-footed jester...
...industry, is aware of the limits of his role, and carries out his duties with interest, sharpness and a complete absence of self-pity; a creature of routine who, though occasionally delighting in court-jester...
...In America there was surely never a time when comedy was more urgently required - even an official court jester....
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