Word: circus
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...where rules are broken, where physics plays games--Look, my cup is floating. They swam through the Columbia's passageways like happy dolphins, thrilled with their good fortune, doing somersaults. This came naturally to David Brown, who in an earlier life was a tumbler and stilt walker in the circus and rode a 7-ft. unicycle before he settled down to be a flight surgeon and naval aviator. That turned out to be good training: "What I really learned from that," he said once, "is kind of the teamwork and the safety and the staying focused, even...
...more comfortable in their seats. Riding into town from Hammersmith, teenage girls chattered brightly on the bottom deck and finally exited in a fit of giggles. It was almost business as usual. On any other day the sharp knock at the back of the bus as it approached Piccadilly Circus might have been interpreted as something mundane: an umbrella hitting the floor, a high heel?s clatter. Today it provoked a panic for one woman seated in the back row of the lower floor. She looked around anxiously for a minute or so and then surged towards the doors, pushing...
...large part due to Olympic accounts," says Christos Hadjiemmanuil, who is on leave from the London School of Economics to run the state company that is trying to lease out Olympic properties such as the sailing center. Not everything spent on the Games was wasted, though. When the media circus left town, Athens was left with something it had never had before: the infrastructure of a modern European city. "There have probably been some overruns, but I still consider Athens' legacy to be a very good one," says Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee ( i.o.c...
...Lincoln. "Those who have spoken most confidently of their knowledge of his personal qualities," Pennsylvania Republican Alexander McClure said of Lincoln, "are, as a rule, those who saw least of them below the surface." And many real Lincoln intimates kept a low profile, wishing to avoid the media circus. Meanwhile, one man who tried to talk about Lincoln in a complex and honest way paid a heavy price. After Lincoln died, Herndon solicited memories from men and women who had known him, identifying and tracking down crucial sources, then hounding them until they gave a statement or an interview...
...role of St. Peter guarding heaven's gates is a suitably outrageous part for John Cleese, the madcap star of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, two of the most popular British comedy series ever to appear on American public TV. In a film called The Unorganised Manager, St. Peter returns an executive to earth to correct his "eleven deadly organizational sins...