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...whether TV should be admitted for a particular case; cameras are usually barred when the victim's identity needs to be protected, as in the Central Park-jogger rape trial. Nor, despite the / crowd at Ligon's trial, has TV in general turned the courtroom into the proverbial media circus. With tight ground rules, cameras and microphones can be kept relatively unobtrusive...
...circus-like event became an oft-cited symbol of a secretive search process that had started to buckle under pressure...
RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS. "The Greatest Show on Earth" lives up to its own grandiose billing in its 121st year. From the Crescendo of Cats to the fingernail-biting Globe of Death, a motorcycle thriller, this all- American tradition is sure to delight. In New York City through April 28, then on to Providence, New Haven and Hartford...
...other thing known for sure is that the complaint turned Palm Beach into a media circus. In the greatest assemblage of journalists since Operation Desert Storm, reporters from as far away as Norway descended on the enclave, foraging for the most insignificant detail. One tabloid bid six figures for the alleged victim's story, and another handed his business card to a hospital employee with a note on the back promising "$500 for the name" of the woman who was treated...
...story is a random walk -- no cause, no effect and no harm done -- with the author's mischievous grin taking the curse off a detectable undertone of "Ain't I cute!" Getting non sequiturs to tail up like circus elephants doesn't always work, even if the paragraphs are amusing. In a sketch called Blumenthal on the Air, an American disk jockey for some reason is based in Paris and unaccountably burdened with a surly Iranian wife. He broods murkily without enlightenment, and so does the reader...