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The actors do their part, pretending to speak their lines and offering appropriately comedic or horrific facial expressions, but ultimately they are only playing caricatures. The costumes are brightly colored and straight out of a carnival, making the mock terror of Caligari's Grand Guignol play seem ridiculously stylized.
MADRID: The Basque separatist organization ETA struck for the third time in less than 24 hours Tuesday, killing a high-profile businessman and adding to fears that a new wave of separatist violence is in the offing. As mourners in Madrid and Granada commemorated the victims of two earlier slayings...
Representatives from more than 80 community service programs ringed the rooms of the organization's Yard headquarters, competing like carnival barkers for several students who came through looking for volunteer opportunities.
DIED. COLONEL TOM PARKER, 87, Elvis Presley's impresario; of stroke complications; in Las Vegas. The onetime carnival barker discovered Presley in 1955 and then masterminded the King's career while taking oversize percentages for himself. After Presley's death in 1977, his heirs sued Parker, and in 1982 the...
These are just a few of the images that greet visitors to Juan Darien, a self-described "carnival Mass" being staged at New York City's Lincoln Center. Adapted from an Uruguayan story by innovative stage director and designer Julie Taymor, it is a visually dazzling and utterly original piece...