Word: circusã
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...past few years, Britney Spears may have lost her dignity, her agency, and maybe even her voice. But if nothing else, she has held on to the formula for successful pop music. “Circus?? is the quintessential Britney CD, but trashier. There are the driving dance singles “Womanizer” and “Circus,” schmaltzy ballads “Out from Under” and “Blur,” and even a reflection on her continuing war with the paparazzi in “Kill...
...that languid indie raspiness perfected by acts such as Regina Spektor and Arcade Fire, which lays on a coat of artificiality right from the get-go. After complaining about life at home, he proceeds to describe San Francisco in the way that same seven-year-old might describe the circus??the ultimate playground to run away to, an indie paradise. “Up in North Beach they drink spicy Italian liqueur / Down on Market there’s a lot of hobos and hustlers / Down in Hayes Valley there’s a lot of good restaurants...
...this painting about?” wondered The Stable Boy.Pierre returned to his canvas, trembling as he swirled his brush in the rich pigments and applied them to the canvas. His previous works had all involved giraffes, which made their production quite expensive. The ringmaster of the London Circus??that weaselly little degenerate!—drove a hard bargain. He felt, however, that the leopard allowed for a much higher degree of metaphorical coherence. London’s aristocratic intelligentsia would fall to their knees at the unveiling. It would be his masterpiece.On the pedestal, The Stable...
...said Joshua M. Brener ’07, president of the Pudding, “and the circus is down on its luck and looking to fight off the onslaught of the advancing freak show.” In the midst of this rivalry, one of the circus??s star acrobats develops a verboten love for one of the freaks, a failed Japanese Samurai-cum-sword-swallower fittingly named Ai Swallows. “The Ancient Tent Commandments forbid any mixing of the big-tops and freaks,” said Warland L. “Trey?...
Although Kennedy and his colleagues have fervently denied the charges, citing Kennedy’s limp as the cause for his failed sobriety test, not even the ringleaders of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ circus??has been accused by pundits of unlawful intoxication...