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Word: barnumism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nothing cures a hangover like cotton candy, peanuts, and the smell of elephant shit. Relive your childhood days and head over to the FleetCenter for the "Greatest Show on Earth"--the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus. Guaranteed hotties in spandex! With midterms coming, running away to the circus doesn't sound half bad. Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 11:30 a.m.; 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.; Sunday at 1 and 4:30 p.m. FleetCenter, Causeway St. (North Station T-Stop...

Author: By Sara Reistad-long, | Title: LISTINGS | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...think that it's time to overcome your clown phobia? Now's your chance to face your fears. Go and see the Greatest Show on Earth, Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey Circus, where the four corners of the earth come together in three rings. 7:30 p.m., Fleetcenter (North Station T-stop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LISTINGS | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

...then, the police had another murder on their hands. Last Tuesday, they say, Thill and suspect Jeremiah Barnum, 23, bullied Dia, a hotel housekeeper, at a bus stop and knocked off his hat. When nurse's assistant Jeannie VanVelkinburgh picked it up for him, Thill opened fire. Dia died in minutes; VanVelkinburgh, a single mother of two boys, is paralyzed from the waist down. "It wasn't a planned thing," Thill told local station KMGH-TV. "Drank a little bit. I'm a deep thinker. Walked through town with my gun in my waist, saw the black guy and thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCKY MOUNTAIN HATE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...have been mistaken for a calcified Superman with a biblical pedigree evokes patronizing chuckles today. But Jacobs, an undersung writer (Beautiful Soup, The Egg of the Glak and Other Stories), treats bunkum and hypocrisy as endearingly ambivalent national traits. Unsurprisingly, his all-time champion of this view is P.T. Barnum, who at one point tells General Tom Thumb that "our mission is to startle and amuse, to make our audience pay too much for too little and forget to hang us from the nearest lamppost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: YANKEE DIDDLE DANDY | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...Barnum is one of the more honest characters in Jacobs' conflation of fact and fiction. In effect, the legendary showman leads a kind of geek chorus of real and imagined religious zealots, yellow journalists, gangsters and robber barons. The Wall Street rogue Jay Gould actually sells someone a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge. A Jewish peddler leaves the fold to become a dowser for parched anti-Semites. Hull changes the name of a new cigar from Pickaninny to Uncle Tom after hearing that black smokers might be offended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: YANKEE DIDDLE DANDY | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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