Word: barnumism
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MARRIED. Miguel Vazquez, 18, the world's greatest trapeze artist and the only aerialist ever to execute a quadruple somersault; and Rosa Segrera, 21, his flying partner; both for the first time; in Venice, Fla., the winter home of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus. After a Roman Catholic ceremony, a circus parade, including elephants, tigers and clowns, wound its way to an arena where the newlyweds climbed the trapeze for their first flight as husband and wife. They rode off atop an elephant wearing flower garlands and a JUST MARRIED sign...
...cord, gas chambers, doppelgangers, poison-bearing pins" versus a group of friends sitting on a couch, smiling encouragingly, waving brightly-coloured plastic baseball bats." It is here that Pesetsky's wisdom lies; rather than offer epigram, dogma, or role model, she generally keeps her characters' lives firmly within the Barnum & Bailey's that is their natural sphere...
...Saturday on a beautiful day in New Haven was single-handedly this art a Crimson squad that, without a doubt, played its finest hockey of the year. At the same time, she preserved a tie for a Yale squad that couldn't even have made the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey traveling circus...
Second, the statement shows a deliberate lowering of scholarly standards to the level of a circus master P.T. Barnum's slogan, "give the people what they want." In the name of honesty, however, it might be more appropriate to change the title of his book and article to Thinking About Crime--Except for the Vast Ones Committed by the Mafia, the U.S. Government, Large Corporations and Respectable Middle Class Citizens...
...best-known attribute, but Uncle Sam is becoming one of the greatest salesmen since P.T Barnum. Switch on a radio or TV set, flip through a newspaper or magazine, and there he is, in one guise or another. Here is the U.S. Postal Service, sniping at Federal Express, Emery, Purolator and other private-sector small-package carriers, boasting that it can do just as competent a job and make mailers "look good for less." Here is the U.S. Army invading the air waves with its stirring jingle, "Be all that you can be," aiming it especially at June high school...