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...pieces in the puzzle that you will see the truth." Meanwhile, he suggested folksily, "Sit back and enjoy yourselves as much as possible." Slaton even urged the jurors to show sympathy for the state's witnesses, warning about the sly tactics of the chief defense trial lawyer, Alvin Binder, 52, a white attorney from Mississippi. "Mr. Binder has a national reputation as an expert in cross examination . . . put yourselves in their place...
...only one ring, two clowns, 14 acrobats and aerialists, one horse, one pony, one elephant - and no dogs or lions at all. What it does have is enthusiasm, charm and the friendliness of the small scale. "This is the maximum size I ever want to have," insists Director Paul Binder. "If we were larger, we would lose our intimacy and immediacy." Now completing a four-week run at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, the Big Apple Circus has something else most of its competitors, which play in huge arenas like Madison Square Garden, do not have these days...
...ring is only 42 ft. in diameter-is that the audience can become involved. At each show one of the clowns plucks children from their seats to lead the band. Though few in the audience may suspect it, that clown is also the founder and director of the company, Binder himself...
...Binder, 39, is no less unusual than the rest of his troupe. A graduate of Dartmouth, with a master's in business administration from Columbia, he spent three years working behind the scenes in TV, as talent booker for Merv Griffin and stage manager for Julia Child. Then, in 1970, he met the Big Apple's other clown, Michael Christensen, who invited him to join the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Hungry to be in front of an audience at last, Binder accepted; eventually the two traveled to Europe, where they performed their juggling act on Paris street corners...
...group began playing punk numbers instead of the agreed-upon country and western. The musicians brought a guitar and fiddle on the show, launched into a sample tune, Orange Blossom Special, and won their suit. In the case of the permanent that wasn't, Beauty Salon Operator Katharina Binder borrowed a glass of water from the judge and dunked a strand of young Michelle's hair into it, hoping to show that it would curl. But her hair was dead in the water-and so was the Binders' case. Concluded Wapner: "Michelle appears...