Word: circus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trump story has been a media circus: Barbara Walters raising her glass to toast Ivana. Only in this atmosphere does it seem unsurprising that a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (John O'Connor of New York) would publicly discuss the pastoral visit of one of the separating partners in a marriage. CARDINAL TO TRUMPS: PRAY, chimed Newsday on Page One. People who choose to share their private lives with gossip columnists and debate the terms of their divorce in newspapers get what they deserve...
...preoccupy the supposedly serious mainstream press. Decades after Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper and their ilk went the way of the dodo, their patented elixir of career hype, marital comings and goings, feuds, fortunes and celebrity pratfalls has become the journalistic cocktail of choice. In the great public circus of American life, gossip is back in the center ring...
...houselights dim in the Garrett Coliseum in Montgomery, the ! ringmaster's voice rattles the rafters: "Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages! Producer Kenneth Feld proudly presents the 119th edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the Greatest Show on Earth! Take one! We're rolling! Lights! Camera! Action!" But wait -- what kind of show is this? Flickering lights in Ring 2 reveal a scene right out of a silent film. Two Keystone Kop cars have collided, while clowns dressed as cops and criminals strike up a dance...
...victimless "crime" between two consenting adults in a bathroom generates a veritable circus of police and press activity...
...freedom circus going on over here," declares Treasury's Deputy Secretary John Robson, an Administration coordinator for East European aid. "But it is a lot more than three rings." The arrival and departure of delegations on economic planning, marketing, trade and technical expertise are expected to rise geometrically in the next year or so. Treasury and the stodgy old Department of Commerce could be as important in this new world as the Pentagon was in the last...