Word: circus
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...famous." He gambled on a full-page ad in the New York Times, changed the name of the store to Wine Library and taught himself enough about wine to impress the resulting flood of customers. "I was 19, but I looked like I was 11. It became a circus act because people wanted to hear me talk about Burgundy...
...buildings. That a large investor has come to the neighborhood is a vindication of the city's strategy to spark private interest by plowing municipal money into improvements such as a minor-league baseball stadium. Coney Island fixture Dick Zigun, who has brought back old traditions like the circus sideshow and invented new ones like the Mermaid Parade, reflects the population's pragmatism: "We went far on spirit alone, but there's only so much you can do without multimillion-dollar investment...
...your nightdress”). The hardness of the opening songs is echoed in the later songs, but the storm never rages as intensely again. The sound becomes a little rougher in “Do Me a Favor” and “This House is a Circus,” which both crescendo and end with wailing guitars. The latter of those two songs is a lyrical masterpiece about the quixotic search for complete satisfaction in life: “And we’re forever unfulfilled / Can’t think why / Like a search for murder...
...days of America's rampant Anglophilia - a three-decade stretch from Alec Guinness' Ealing comedies of the immediate postwar era through the rise of Peter Sellers, Beyond the Fringe and the Beatles (whom we saw as essentially a musical comedy team) and culminating in Monty Python's Flying Circus. A lot of American kids got a lot of their sense of humor from these inspired sources; and so, on the evidence, did Wright and Pegg. Shaun of the Dead was shot at Ealing, and takes its skewed vision of English community from the films made their more than a half...
...thank the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for much of this new shoeless security circus. With unseemly haste, the government created the TSA by nationalizing airport security after 9/11, as politicians tripped over each other in a mad dash to ‘do something!’ But this grand experiment in U.S.S.R.-style central planning has failed: The TSA has proved itself an incompetent, abusive, and unnecessary substitute for private airport security providers...