Word: circus
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...British news and gripped the public as much as the plight of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann. And with Saturday marking the first anniversary of the 4-year-old's disappearance from her family's vacation apartment in the Portuguese resort town of Praia da Luz, the ongoing media circus is again revving into overdrive. "There will be wall-to-wall coverage," says Roy Greenslade, a British media critic...
...combing the arena for intruders and worry that merely dropping Alford’s name might not be enough keep me backstage for long. So I make the most of my time. We are at Eleganza, in the midst of what appears to be the staging area of a circus tent. Half-naked men anxiously sashay through racks of designer clothing as scantily-clad women strap on cheetah-print loincloths and high heels. “The belly dancers are about to start!” someone with a clipboard and an earpiece shouts. In the midst of this whirlwind...
...goes into the creative product and that which it provokes. The stupidity of Shvarts’ and others’ projects stems from the sense that the pure, ugly spectacle is all that there is to be had here. We might as well attend a Victorian freak show or circus for all the stimulation such displays will supply...
...there as friends of the new aristocrat. “They are cool dudes,” Rennell said while dancing, turkey leg in hand, in a costume reminiscent of King Henry VIII. However, the fun atmosphere of the party seemed to sum up the club’s circus philosophy. “It’s about this,” Skinner says, gesturing at the gyrating crowd of people dressed in Viking costumes, togas, Shumag’s, Renaissance dresses, and stilt-walkers. Despite their name, the Harvard-Radcliffe Juggling Club does not limit itself to juggling...
...When Golson’s career began to pick up and he was playing more and more dates in Philadelphia, his attention strayed beyond the city. “I wanted to go on the road so bad, I would have gone with a circus band,” Golson said, chuckling. Luckily for him, Bull Moose Jackson, an already successful jazz musician at the time, came to Philadelphia, auditioned Golson, and launched his professional career.While playing in Jackson’s rhythm and blues band, Golson met famous pianist and arranger Tadd Dameron...