Word: circus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must be from Mars. Every room with a television, newspaper or radio in it seems like a Circus Maximus, in true American style. The story of the Simpson snowball goes something like the following. The story breaks in mid-June, and North America is treated to a four-hour Ford commercial. Bronco sales must have skyrocketed: "What a stunningly handsome car! I'll take one with the O.J. option package please--with revolver...
...media engaged in a complete circus and downplayed the important issues of this case," he said...
Cirque's triumph is that it has kept to the point, to its earliest mission of blending circus with theater. And if the meta-Broadway superproduction Mystere is the most theatrical of Cirque shows so far, Alegria is the most circusy, the most intimate, traditional, European. Though it boasts wondrous sets and costumes -- an aviary motif with acrobat birds in brilliant plumage -- it is dominated by the clowns, most of them Russian, with a dolorous wit and poignant stories to tell. In one sketch a clown-bird perches alone on a telegraph wire (a rope stretched across the stage) enjoying...
...circus did not come to life, ratings hovered at seasonal levels, and Dan Rather got a suntan and some swimming lessons. Finally, only one question remains: Where...
...with the Simpson proceedings, a circus odor envelops the grand jury examining Cowlings' connection to the O.J. affair. Last week a man named John Dunton was jailed for refusing to testify. Dunton, who had earlier gone on television claiming that two men killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman and that a private eye hired to follow Nicole witnessed the murders, now said he would be killed if he talked. Anthony Pellicano, the private investigator who worked for Michael Jackson amid the pop star's tangle with child-abuse allegations, then emerged to deny that he was the private eye Dunton...