| | | | By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | Creepy clowns are having a moment this Halloween. A spate of recent horror movies and shows center them, from Pennywise to real-life serial killer John Wayne Gacy. But, far from being a departure from the balloon-carrying family entertainer, these bad clowns are actually a return to their original, subversive form. As historian Felicia Angeja Viator writes in Made by History, by the mid-19th century, clowns had become a staple of the travelling circus. Sporting exaggerated costumes, their performances were meant for adults only; satire, lewdness, and transgression of societal norms took center stage. And when the sweet, child-friendly clown emerged in the 20th century, he was quickly eclipsed by tricksters and killer clowns, with increasingly horrifying motives—perfect for spooky season. | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This week in 1975: Bruce Springsteen |  | The Oct. 27, 1975, cover of TIME |
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| "Springsteen spent nearly two years working on his third album, Born to Run, and Columbia Records has already invested $150,000 in ensuring that this time around, everyone gets the message…'My Daddy was a driver,' Springsteen remembers. 'He liked to get in the car and just drive. He got everybody else in the car too, and he made us drive. He made us all drive.' These two-lane odysseys without destination only reinforced Springsteen's already flourishing sense of displacement. 'I lived half of my first 13 years in a trance or something,' he says now. 'People thought I was weird because I always went around with this look on my face. I was thinking of things, but I was always on the outside, looking in.'" |
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| | This week in 1993: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder |  | The Oct. 25, 1993, cover of TIME |
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| "Vedder is a product of the thriving world of alternative rock, a musical genre that rejects the commercial values of mainstream pop. Alternative has no strict definition, but it has a feel. Its musicians reject show-biz glitz. They support progressive social causes. Many of them avoid dating groupies and models. Their music is usually guitar-driven, with experimental touches. While pop songs are often about love, alternative lyrics are usually about tougher feelings: despair, lust, confusion. Alternative rock is a reaction, especially among the twentysomething generation, to all the years of being subjected to Madonna's changing hair color and MTV close-ups of George Michael's butt." |
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| This week in 2014: U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) |  | The Oct. 27, 2014, cover of TIME |
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| "Polls do show young and minority voters are more likely to support many libertarian social views. But the same polls show millennials and minorities are among the most likely to say they want government to do more, not less. His answer was a study in nuance, and ambition. 'I have said and I will continue to say that we shouldn't cut one penny from the safety net until we eliminate every penny of corporate welfare,' he said, before going on to describe all the ways Republicans need to improve their messaging to working-class communities. 'It doesn't mean that I won't say the things I have said, which is that assistance needs to be temporary and the goals should be work, not permanent assistance.'" |
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