Word: circus
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...rights in the new Iraqi government while here at home Congress passes laws and approves budgets and judicial nominations with scant consideration of minority views. Klein advises Democrats not to be so obsessed with the legal system but instead to trust legislatures to solve thorny problems. After the congressional circus over Terri Schiavo, I am grateful to the Founding Fathers for having had the sense to create a judiciary whose members can focus on the Constitution, not the next election...
...releases them at the opening ceremonies gets to stay in practice, and that the athletes and the rest of us remain attentive. There were absentees at Baton Rouge among the top U.S. competitors, and crowds were lighter than festival boosters had expected. But among those who came to this circus of 30-odd summer sports and three winter skating events, the mood seemed light and untroubled. For athletes the meet was important but not career-breaking. For spectators both the nationalistic baying and the oppressive security of the Olympics were absent. A visitor could park and buy a ticket...
Lately, however, we have Maxim magazine, that venerable friend to all college students, devoting the entirety of its “Circus Maximus” spread to the prank Yale students pulled on our eighty-year-old alumni at Harvard-Yale...
Almost from the moment that DeLay first came up with the idea of subpoenaing Schiavo as a way to prevent the removal of her feeding tube, the saga has had elements of a political circus. There was Congress, convening a special session during the Easter recess to pass a bill crafted just for one family, giving Schiavo's parents a final avenue of appeal. There was President Bush, for the first time cutting short a rest at his ranch to sign a bill. Top Republican staffers on Capitol Hill told TIME that it took some lobbying by congressional Republican leaders...
With witty, lightweight songs by William Finn (March of the Falsettos), the show is, first of all, a funny spoof of the rituals of these contests--from the up-close-and-personal commentary, delivered in earnest half-whisper by the moderator ("Mr. Barfee has a sea anemone circus in his basement"), to the ridiculously unhelpful sentences meant to put the words in context ("Sally's mother told her it was her cystitis that made her special"). The show also, more distractingly, partakes in the current Broadway fad of audience participation: four civilians each night are selected to go onstage...