Word: circus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from reading a December 28 letter from Rooney to Middlesex Country District Attorney Thomas Reilly, which was obtained by The Crimson, one would think the lieutenant had just been to the circus...
Then it was on to Bulgaria, at the invitation of his "European economic adviser," Svetoslav Stoilov, a friend whose qualifications include working as a magician's assistant at home in Bulgaria, as a circus technician in Czechoslovakia and as a dance-bar proprietor in Vienna. Following a night's rest in Stoilov's hometown of Sandanska, the Russian politician traveled to the village of Melnik to accept a painting from a local artist who shares Zhirinovsky's conviction that Bulgaria should expand its territory by annexing the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia. To make sure the message got across...
Whenever the change began, American show business is today so pervasively Vegasy that we hardly notice anymore. The arty, sexy French-Canadian circus Cirque du Soleil had its breakthrough run in Manhattan before decamping this year to Las Vegas, and neither venue seemed unnatural. Big rock-'n'-roll concerts nowadays are often as much about wowie-kazowie production values -- giant video walls, neon, fireworks, suggestively costumed young men and women, clouds of pastel-colored smoke -- as music. Michael Jackson's highly stylized shtick -- the cosmetics, the wardrobe, the not-quite-dirty bumps and grinds, the Liberace-like gender-preference coyness...
...many rings can a circus have? Especially a tabloid freak show like the Michael Jackson affair? The star returned from medical seclusion in London to cooperate with authorities investigating sexual-abuse charges against him. But on his Neverland Ranch in California, Jackson seemed only the main attraction in a seven-ring circus of horror...
...sellerdom of Thriller in 1982. But now the superstar with an abused childhood is something between an object of pity and a dirty joke. His travail could still end in courtroom triumph. It might also reveal tragedy, for Jackson and for children even more vulnerable than he. Then the circus will close down, and Michael's white clown-face will never smile again...