Word: circus
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Quincy House resident Jack M. Marsh ’06 could probably tell you a lot about concentrating in economics, growing up in New York City—and starring under the big top as a bona fide circus performer. Since the age of two, Marsh has trained as an acrobat and juggler in Circus Flora, a one-ring circus production operating out of St. Louis...
...This is Harvard,” Nowinski said. “We can’t bring out the full circus. You have to have a little respect...
...buffoons, jesters, jugglers, acrobats and clowns. At least, that's the premise of The Grand Parade, Portrait of the Artist as Clown at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (March 11-May 31). With 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures, film clips and installations, the show covers two centuries of this circus lineup, as envisioned by 83 artists including Goya, Ensor, Klee, Beckmann, Dix, Picasso, Bonnard, Hopper, Freud, Robert Capa and Diane Arbus. It's a perilous leap from Chardin's delightful The Monkey Painter and Toulouse-Lautrec's bitter yellow La Clownesse Cha-U-Kao to video artist Pierrick Sorin...
Similarly, as a result of PETA’s campaign against circuses’ routine cruelty to animals—elephants and tigers simply will not perform ridiculous tricks without being “broken”—school boards are banning circus promotions in schools, officials are investigating and charging circuses for cruelty to animals and some municipalities have banned animal acts altogether. PETA has convinced more than 550 companies to stop testing their products on animals, and the organization also polices experimenters’ cruel and unnecessary mutilation of animals by investigating laboratories and scrutinizing proposed...
...commercial culture's ability to narcotize children with an endless stream of sex and violence? But those deeper arguments usually get as much attention as the size of the budget deficit. In fact, the Culture War isn't really a war; it's more a public entertainment, a Culture Circus. Wars require combatants. The general public is not up in arms but plastered in armchairs, occasionally roused to flaccid pique by a handful of show-biz gladiators--Rosie O'Donnell, Rush Limbaugh, Al Franken, Jerry Falwell--who fight carefully selected papier-mache lions...