Word: circus
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...idea that he would try to hit Piazza (only the third batter he faced) and risk getting thrown out of the game is plain stupid. Clemens didn't even realize Piazza was in the basepath. In the event, the umpire saw no reason to eject Clemens. But a media circus of the plain stupid went to work...
Besides the crowd, a dog running on to the field early in the first half contributed to a circus-like atmosphere. The referees allowed play to continue for a full minute before carting the dog off the field...
...four began making progress. By 11 p.m. Albright believed she had agreement from the two sides on steps they would take to halt the fighting and keep it from flaring up again. Arafat even softened his demand for an international probe. But outside, diplomacy had become a three-ring circus. President Hosni Mubarak had already booked Albright, Barak and Arafat for Egypt the next day so he could preside over the negotiations. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan had flown to Paris, eager to jump in. And French President Jacques Chirac sat in the Elysee Palace waiting for his turn...
...book out this fall, Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education (Henry Holt), Indiana University professor Murray Sperber compares the American university of 2000 with Rome circa A.D. 100. To keep the populace happy, corrupt Emperors used bread and circuses. In the modern university, administrators use beer and circuses--or Division I athletics and the binge drinking that accompanies it--to distract students from their crowded lecture classes and inattentive professors. Sperber argues that the ncaa, the advertisers who profit from college sports and the Animal House undergrads are all complicit in the deteriorating quality...
...concertgoers gather under a huge blue tent tipped with flashing red lights. Suddenly, the lights go down and a roar goes up. The British rock quintet Radiohead has taken the stage. Unsatisfied with traditional venues and their corporate-logo-covered interiors, the band is touring Europe with a portable circus-like tent. Singer Thom Yorke introduces each number with curt, dry wit; the music is forceful and precise, combining punkish attitude, tasteful art-rock grandeur and judicious electronic sampling. Jonny Greenwood taunts his guitar into some snarling arpeggios and, switching instruments, adds warm, supportive keyboard colors to other songs. This...