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...inspiration for the good-natured, endlessly patient Mommy in the syndicated comic Family Circus, Thelma Keane first met her cartoonist husband Bil Keane during World War II while the American artist was stationed in her native Australia. After they married and returned to the U.S., Thelma managed all her husband's business affairs throughout his career. She is immortalized in Bil's work--which gets an assist from their son, Jeff Keane, and now appears in some 1,500 newspapers...
...rusty saber served the political point of reminding NATO-friendly neighbors like Georgia and Ukraine, as well as other ex-Soviet Republics, who is still the big guy on the block. Still, with the price of bread and other foodstuffs skyrocketing, there was some grumbling about the circus. The popular Moscow daily Moskovski Komsomolets calculated that the cost of today's military parade could have bought the city of Moscow 25 badly needed new nursery schools...
...British news and gripped the public as much as the plight of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann. And with Saturday marking the first anniversary of the 4-year-old's disappearance from her family's vacation apartment in the Portuguese resort town of Praia da Luz, the ongoing media circus is again revving into overdrive. "There will be wall-to-wall coverage," says Roy Greenslade, a British media critic...
...combing the arena for intruders and worry that merely dropping Alford’s name might not be enough keep me backstage for long. So I make the most of my time. We are at Eleganza, in the midst of what appears to be the staging area of a circus tent. Half-naked men anxiously sashay through racks of designer clothing as scantily-clad women strap on cheetah-print loincloths and high heels. “The belly dancers are about to start!” someone with a clipboard and an earpiece shouts. In the midst of this whirlwind...
...goes into the creative product and that which it provokes. The stupidity of Shvarts’ and others’ projects stems from the sense that the pure, ugly spectacle is all that there is to be had here. We might as well attend a Victorian freak show or circus for all the stimulation such displays will supply...