But Crystal and his co-writers (Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) aim to get behind the ironic mask of this Yiddish harlequin and reveal the fierce ambition and bitterness that fuel his put-downs.
But in the first quarter of 2013, Harlequin had a handful of hits on the best-seller list, indicating that it might be turning its digital performance around.
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The thieves are a band of Norman mercenaries, including a mysterious warrior who calls himself Harlequin, from the old French word hellequin, meaning a troop of the devil's horsemen.
"One Man" has its own loose versions of those characters transposed into 1960s England, plus a goofy harlequin type in the lead: Francis Henshall (James Corden), an easily confused young man who has created a jam by employing himself as a gofer to two separate men at the same time.
Clinging to trees and windows, looking for a place to rest, huge numbers of exotic harlequin ladybirds easily outnumbered the native species.
Harlequin has not benefited from the rise of ebooks despite the huge popularity of romance ebooks.
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For books that attract commercial interest, the company has partnered with publishers like Harlequin to release them through traditional channels, but with more generous royalties.
In the following two years, she signed several publishing deals with larger publishers: a deal with Harlequin Teen and a two-book deal with Disney Hyperion.
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Brent Lewis, who runs Harlequin's digital business, says his firm's digital readership is composed of the same middle-aged women who read its printed books.
The main question the exhibition raises is why should an artist such as Picasso have wanted to dress up as a harlequin in a diamond-patterned coat and a cocked hat?
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