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...Sprint, small but nimble carriers that nibble away at A T & T's customers with high technology, growing networks and lower tolls. Along with lesser-knowns like Chicago's Allnet, the big competitors are mounting publicity and ad campaigns that would make Barnum proud. Actor
...mounted the podium last week at the National Association of Broadcasters annual convention in Las Vegas and let fly with some sharp rebukes for TV newscasters. "Too often, broadcast journalists are obsessed with getting it first, with confrontation, not coverage," said Fowler. Televised news, he declared, sometimes looks "like Barnum & Bailey...
...show's producers. They had heard the star telling an interviewer that the only thing she had never done was to ride an elephant. So when MacLaine arrived at the theater, she was caught by surprise, and nuzzled, by Targa, queen of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The pachyderm obligingly knelt to help MacLaine aboard-"She was so sweet and kind," the star said-though Targa also unfurled her trunk and snatched up most of MacLaine's chocolate birthday cake. Perhaps the most exuberant event was the Broadway song and dance itself. MacLaine showed...
...unfair characterization of our society's lack of compassion. It may be that televising executions will cause people to realize that capital punishment is a barbaric institution. Maybe, as a result of the public exposure, the outcry will be so great that the process will be stopped altogether. P.T. Barnum once told us we'd never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the public. These days, you probably wouldn't go broke overestimating its acceptance of brutality...
They hit the state like Barnum & Bailey and then fold their tents in the dead of caucus night...