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...honest, there's nothing too radical here. As Page admits, his aim was to "do everything - Aboriginal content, a bit for the conservatives, a bit for the crazies, a bit of a circus. A universal smorgasbord." That he's delivered. By the end of the first week, there were the usual hits (The Overcoat) and misses (Night Letters). The former, a piece of bravura theater-making from Canada, mixes Buster Keaton with Gogol and - after seven years on the festival circuit - purrs like a Rolls-Royce. Letters, the State Theatre Company of South Australia's new four-hour adaptation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Leaps and Bounds | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

...experience,” Soriano says. “You grow up watching the Super Bowl but never expect to be part of it. You turn on the news and there’s all these celebrity sightings, celebrities throwing parties, the media. It’s a real circus...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Harvard Stars Embark On European Tour | 3/3/2004 | See Source »

...remains of a bus destroyed by a suicide bomber out front. In response, pro-Palestinian activists shouted, "Stop the occupation now!" As the debate raged, many people wondered whether the ICJ should be hearing the case at all. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon snubbed the hearing as an "international circus," and the U.S. boycotted it as well. Also absent were representatives from the E.U. - and that surprised some Israelis, who have long accused Europe of anti-Israel bias. (Those feelings were fueled in part by a November Eurobarometer survey in which 59% of Europeans polled said the Jewish state "presents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fence Goes on Trial | 2/29/2004 | See Source »

Munera uses irony and symbolism to convey specific ideas to his viewer. In “Circus Tent,” another photograph taken in the slums of Bogota, a small, dilapidated tent that reads “Bienvenido al Circo” in faded red letters gapes open, revealing the humble iron bed frame that someone calls home. Munera’s portrait titled, “Destiny Stone” shows a bright-eyed boy peering through a hole in a boulder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exhibition Preview | 2/27/2004 | See Source »

...find a balance where I could work and have fun." Since returning to her home in Los Angeles (she also has residences in New York City and Sao Paulo), she has spent a lot of time on her very rigorous version of chilling out: riding horses, surfing and learning circus trapeze. "You can do a split in the air," she says. "You can have a guy on another trapeze catch you." I am officially depressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back In Bloom | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

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