Word: circus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Davis' dramatic out-of-order presentation ofher petition to Gabay two weeks ago prompted onecouncil member to criticize her for initiating a"three-ring circus...
...authors' greatest preoccupation is with Klein's private life. He married young and fathered a daughter, Marci, whose kidnapping in 1978 was a media circus and a personal trauma. By that time, Klein had discovered drugs and vodka and immersed himself in the luxurious pre-AIDS life of rich gays. He developed a passion for Studio 54, even staying after it closed to help the waiters count change. Then it was on to Flamingo, a gay after-hours club. Final stop was the Mineshaft, a "warren of rooms crowded with men, many openly having sex . . . no cologne or Lacoste shirts...
...judicially sensational, attending many a grotesque trial. Waters can sagely note the media's glamorizing and merchandising of felony -- "These days you can commit a crime, and two weeks later it's a TV movie" -- and in the next breath give a rave review to the Menendez circus. "A-list, A-list!" he rhapsodizes. "It's the only A-list trial in America for quite some time. Hey, it even launched a cable channel...
...thing that makes these musicals so horrendous is that, despite their circus-like choreography, childishly spectacular special effects, ostentatious costumes and sets, scores worthy of John Williams and embarrassingly inane lyrics, people shell out upwards of 50 bucks a ticket and get all gussied up to go see them. For some reason that I fail to comprehend, these events get away with masquerading as high culture. In this video age, does anything that appears in a theater automatically deserve that appellation? Even someone dressed up as a cat named Rum Tum Tiger...
...days ago, my life became pure once again. Young, strapping men are back at Fenway chewing tobacco, scratching themselves and attempting to smash little white balls with 35-inch pieces of wood. The circus that has become professional baseball is back in Boston for six months. I was there and I could not have been happier...