Word: barnumism
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...Treasures of Disney Animation Art (Abbeville; 319 pages; $85). "His sole aim was to create entertainment." But the two goals are not mutually exclusive, as demonstrated by this vast selection gleaned from millions of sketches, paintings and layouts. Abrams' book continues the elevation of Disney from the Barnum of the barnyard to an aesthetician with uncanny instincts. This is no Mickey Mouse collection; it includes paintings by, of all people, Thomas Hart Benton and Salvador Dali, which were commissioned by Walt as "inspirational sketches" for his animators. At the studio, "fine art" was stressed. As one executive...
...dollars, and he ultimately wants to have the council guarantee the future success of Harvard students. He has also called his seven opponents for the chairmanship "maggots" and "the base excrement of mediogrity." "Predictably he's been called a few names himself, including "fascist," "beffecn" and "the nest P.T. Barnum." When a fellow candidate threw out the latter epithet. Evans responded: "If I get the chairmanship, you shall be ruthlessly purged...
...brothers had managed the nearly impossible stunt ten times in practice sessions over the past year, and they had tried doing it at every performance since Dec. 29, when the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened its 112th season. Charley Baumann, the circus' performance director, had seen them fail so many times that he too was stunned when they finally succeeded. He ran to the phone and called the show's producers, Irvin and Kenneth Feld, in Washington. "They asked me why the hell I was calling after midnight," he told TIME's Paul Krueger...
...summer of 1931. Millions are unemployed. What people need is something to take their minds off the Depression. Charles C. Flanagan, a flamboyant character composed of equal parts of FT. Barnum, Texas Guinan and unadulterated chutzpah, conceives of a marathon to end all marathons, a 3,000-mile foot race that begins in the Los Angeles Coliseum and ends, months later, in New York's Central Park. To make it interesting, he offers $300,000 in prize money...
...Mussolini has won his own immortality as the archetypal thug. But the founder of Fascism was a complex thug who could never make up his mind whether he wanted to be a fearsome breaker of the peace, like his neighbor to the north, or a geopolitical showman, the P.T. Barnum of international politics. Judging from Denis Mack Smith's study, by far the more solid and persuasive of these two new biographies, the Duce (chief) was a bit of both...