Word: circus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least now it takes the decision making process out of a circus and into reasonable hands," says Sharp. He says that a receivership assures the university that all decisions concerning their budget will be free of politics...
...dominate the beast of the Haitian army for seven months was no small thing for my government. It's like a lion in the circus. The trainer is there in the cage with the lion, and he tries to find every weak spot of the animal in order to maintain his control. But if he fights the lion with force and violence, the tamer will lose, because he does not have the same physical power. Therefore he has to use intelligence. Sometimes, though, the beast strikes at you for no reason...
Stifling the media circus would help even more. Low-budget American realism is not a productive addition to our nation's culture. We need to convince network executives to stop exploiting the unbalanced activities of a few citizens for the entertainment and inspiration of the general television audience. And we also need to convince the viewers of these programs to turn the channel...
...wasn't going to be this ridiculous circus animal--an abstract painter at 16, so I stopped," says Bois, whose worn pipe and sensible shoes make him look more traditional than his interests might suggest. And Bois, in some sense, adopts a conservative approach to a less-than-classical field: he's somewhat suspicious of theory "with a capital T," as he puts...
...INTELLIGENCE Committee is putting on a full-fledged circus this week. For the first few days, the senators will take their shots at Gates, and then they'll bring in former intelligence officials who will take their turn...