Word: circus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Center (and to its sibs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Trump Tower and at Lincoln Center). They see a holiday show: the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, which will attract a million patrons this year at $25 to $55 a ticket, or another family entertainment (the Big Apple Circus, Shari Lewis' Lamb Chop on Broadway). And they window-shop on Fifth Avenue -- a promenade that remains the city's most bustling theatrical experience...
...When I was little, I told my mother I wanted to make a difference, and I wanted to run away and join the circus," Margolies-Mezvinsky said. "Two years ago, I did both...
...were straitjacketed in heroic roles, Lancaster could be his own man, choose parts and not worry whether audiences would like him. He always had that measure of confidence in himself: as a young man he left New York University, where he had a basketball scholarship, to join the circus. What showed through was the will not to be somebody, but to do something...
...more valued alternative to network news. Says MacNeil: "The competition driving the networks now -- CNN, Court TV, tabloid television, entertainment television and magazine shows -- the standards they use have gradually infected what used to be the strict, dignified standards of network news. Now those news shows -- they're like circus barkers who have to exaggerate and hype to haul them into the tent...
...into effective paragraphs and chapters as if there were nothing to it. As always, the funny stuff is funny and the scary parts scary. The puzzle is even puzzling: What did Florida lawyer Matthew Hope stumble over while trying to negotiate the sale of a fairgrounds to a local circus that got him shot? A few of Hope's friends try to find out and are soon stumbling clueless through the circus world, wondering whether the death of a gorgeous midget was suicide or murder, why the animal trainer seems himself to be a predator, and whether the dashing young...