Word: circus
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...credit, they handled the conditions much better than we did,” Medioli said. “Ideally, the conditions shouldn’t play a big role, but in this case they did, and they affected us negatively.” “It was a circus out there,” senior Breffny Morgan added.The two varsity crews remained close throughout the first half of the race as both Harvard and Brown jumped out to a quick start. The Crimson made its move in the second 500 meters to take the lead and hoped also...
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...when a guy like Heston - and, really, there was no guy like Heston - walks onto a set, people line up to put him in majestic roles. Cecil B. De Mille saw his appeal immediately, casting him as the circus owner in the Oscar-winning The Greatest Show on Earth, then giving him the 31-year-old the role of Moses, where Heston, with an old man's beard and a young athlete's energy, holds his staff above his head, parts the waters of the Red Sea and beckons the Israelites to walk on through. That last...
...place, and two hours before midnight is its witching hour. Street musicians pick up their instruments, bars begin to fill, and tourist shops are eclipsed by drunken karaoke and neon “barely legal” signs. It’s Las Vegas without the slot machines and circus acts, a city of wild abandonment and self-forgetting. Interesting, certainly, but not particularly family-friendly. Vacationing with my parents and two younger sisters in a quieter part of town, we soon grew bored with the limited options for non-partiers. So we rented a car and drove across...
Metzingen, a small town in southern Germany with a population of around 22,000, seems an unlikely place for a circus troupe to pitch its tent in the middle of winter, yet what looks like a vast, tented city looms from an icy field. The isolation of the location is summed up by the banter of several guests as they step inside...