Word: barnumism
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Once such extreme fashion could be worn, as one U.S. buyer put it, "only on top of an elephant in the Barnum & Bailey Circus." Today, with more informal living, chances are excellent that many a young thing this summer will flutter about in wide drapery harem pants, try slinging her hooded Arab cloak over her bead-necklace top and hip-hugging pants. And for those who expect to fall, or be thrown, into a pool, there is' an evening bathing suit with a top that is just a halter of beads...
CINEMA JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. Marital infidelity activates the subconscious of Actress Giulietta Masina in this psychic three-ring circus staged with unbuttoned gusto by Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8½), the Barnum of the avantgarde...
Juliet of the Spirits. Italy's Federico Fellini is the Barnum of the avantgarde. In his apocalyptic La Dolce Vita, as in the wildly self-centered 8$, his flair for baroque theatrical effects seemed to be a secondary characteristic of genius, the manner but not the meat of it. In Juliet, his first full-length movie in color, effect is everything. Fellini puts on a psychic three-ring circus that promises profundity and delivers only a stunningly decadent freak show...
Died. Paul Jung, 65, one of the most creative circus clowns in the business, who in 31 years as a performer-producer with Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey originated many of its now standard routines, notably the burning house which explodes a midget high into the air while 30 other clowns fool around with two fire engines; of head wounds suffered in an unsolved murder; in his hotel room, half a block from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...
...Stayed home while Lady Bird joined 6,000 Washington-area poor kids at a performance of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where she sat between a little Negro girl and a little white girl, matched wits-and laugh lines-with a clown...