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Among the other winners: human rights for Best Idea; Celestine V for Best Pope; India for Best Revolution; penicillin for Best Invention; and Lucille Ball for Best Clown.
With relative stillness this week from the White House, the Hill, Kenneth Starr's office, and the world of international diplomacy (excepting Ireland, unfortunately), the commentariat must clown about to keep the crowd's attention.
It has often been derives from the name of the clown Grock, an allusion to the red sunburnt noses of seaside holidaymakers.
In other news, I neglected to mention yesterday my single favorite sentence of the day, from a story in the Wall Street Journal about Jack-in-the-Box Corp.'s annual report: "The 1999 report opens with 14 pages of verse, narrated by fictional CEO 'Jack,' a sometimes-evil clown with a head that resembles a ping-pong ball."
They took particular pleasure in the antics of Punchinello, a long-nosed clown with white clothes and a cone hat.