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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.
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He is something of a combined public jester, soft-core political agitator, and freelance director of recreation.
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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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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.
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" 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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The politically-shrewd and often critical bitcoin seeks independent validation like a jester in the court of monetary sovereigns.
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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.
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But now two other companies have challenged Google for the jester's crown Twitter, a microblogging service, and Zappos, an online shoe-shop.
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