Word: circus
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...investor psychology, it has turned circus-freak ugly. Not a serious buyer in sight. Cash is piling up in money funds, which stand at a record $1.8 trillion. Cash at stock mutual funds equals 5.3% of assets, up from 4% in March. Yet to bulls, these stockpiles represent buying power ready to push prices higher. "I've never seen so many people on Wall Street talking to so many other people on Wall Street trying to figure out what's happening," confesses John Manley, a market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney...
Rogow, a scholarly, bow-tied law professor who has argued 11 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, said the word circus wasn't big enough to describe the show. At one point attorney Alan Dershowitz, the Zelig of American law, and another lawyer attended a hearing with Rogow, and the New York Times observed: "In a race that was not particularly close, both men beat the lead defense lawyer, Bruce S. Rogow, to the television cameras outside the courthouse...
...have strongly mixed feelings about whether animals belong in the circus or not. The traditionalist in me says keep 'em in - I can't imagine a circus without animals. The animal lover in me, while thrilled just to catch a glimpse of them, often veers between discomfort and amazement at the unusual acts they are made to perform...
That said, there should always be a place in the circus for horses. The very first circus acts were horse acts, and the circus ring itself was established and perfected in order to allow a rider to stand and perform tricks on a moving horse. When it comes to equestrian acts, Kaleidoscape does not disappoint. Sylvia Zerbini's glowing white Liberty horses enter the ring as magically as if they were a herd of unicorns, and gracefully circle the ring responding to her every word and motion...
...KALEIDOSCAPE offers a heaping spoonful of both the traditional and the new, all in an environment that allows the audience to become immersed in the whole circus experience and, most importantly, to have fun. And if it makes the world a safer place to be a clown, well, that's just icing on the cake...