Word: circus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...City government [had] turned into a circus of self-dealing and political hackdom," says Reeves...
Events the club has held in the past include a trip to the circus, an outing to the Indigo Girls concert, sleepovers, pasta parties and beer-fests, for which Klein brewed his own beer. And yesterday, the got the Currier House dining crew to serve up fusilli to the whole house...
Scholars interviewed are united in their condemnation of the Senate's procedure and say that the case was turned into a circus...
...something happened last week that may, for better or worse, permanently destroy all that comity. Senator Hatch opened the hearings in disgust, saying that if the Democrats had only asked for a closed executive session, the committee would have been spared its Friday circus. Senator Alan Simpson, who usually manages to hide his meanness behind an Andy Rooney facade, warned Hill that she would be "injured, and destroyed and belittled and hounded and harassed -- real harassment, different from the sexual kind, just plain old Washington-variety harassment." What debates over the budget, arms control, abortion or the gulf...
NATION: The Ugly Circus...