Word: circus
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...Kyle E. Hausmann ’06, Warren undressed while juggling two big knives and an ax during a psychology class presentation. “I was trying to demonstrate John Piaget’s notion of cognitive dissonance,” Warren explains. Fortunately, he was wearing circus pants underneath, and was not arrested for his class presentation. Warren never parts with his favorite prop, which he endearingly calls his “prayer wheel.” He claims he can ride while drinking his coffee, listening to music, and using his cell phone, though this behavior does...
...PRESIDENT DESPERATE TO TURN THE corner after a wretched 2005, last week's circus was the last thing he needed. This has been a season of doubt about the Administration's competence, candor and instinct. In serial scenes of domestic violence, Republicans are attacking their own. An all-Republican House panel concluded last week that Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff made decisions during Hurricane Katrina "late, ineffectively or not at all." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was grilled about Iraq by cranky Republican Senators: "I don't see, Madame Secretary, how things are getting better," said Chuck Hagel of Nebraska...
...look jaded, bored, if not actually stoned. You may want to play with them, but they don't want to play with you. And this matters, because when you watch little girls play, you realize that it's not just about fashion; it's about fantasy. Barbie joins the circus; Barbie teaches the teddy bears to read. You get the feeling that the Bratz dolls would come to life and protest if you told them they were entering a spelling...
Annenberg is full of freshmen making polite small talk about where they come from. Max. A Binder ’09, though, has a unique answer: the circus. Before coming to Harvard, Binder spent his entire life traveling with the circus and performing 340 shows per year. With a father who founded the Big Apple Circus and a mother who is a fifth-generation equestrian, Binder began his circus career at age four when he played what he describes as “the cute kid” in a variety of circus acts. Two years ago, the circus needed...
...something I do a lot.” “The class, as I see it, is a way to discover one’s own creative process,” says Max A. Binder ’09, who was born and raised in the Big Apple Circus (see “Nonsense Upon Stilts” in this week’s FM). “The class allows us to express ourselves in any way possible, with no limits on our creativity.” For their first assignment, students enrolled in “Loitering?...