Word: circusing
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...substitute teachers rather than, say, assistants to the most powerful guy ever. Though they lack the instant celebrity of Clinton's 1992 team, Bush's team will, in truth, probably grow more recognizable. And soon we will be accustomed to them too, even if we still miss the Clinton circus...
...first day of the trial had all the trappings of a media circus. Dumas, dapper in a navy blue suit and leaning on a cane, was mobbed by photographers and had to be escorted into the courtroom by gendarmes. Deviers-Joncour, 53, arrived like a star at the Cannes Film Festival, dressed in a clinging black suit and smiling demurely at the shouting journalists. As she took a seat on one end of the bench, the male defendants clustered together at the other end, scrupulously avoiding eye contact with the woman who has described herself in a tell-all bestseller...
...watched Whitman's hearing and the surrounding media circus, TIME's Ann Blackman noticed that another new face was doing her best to stay out of the spotlight. "It was really interesting to me that Hillary - considered by many to be a world-class orator, and who must have incredibly strong feelings about John Ashcroft because he represents everything that is anathema to her - never made a single comment about him or his nomination. It's because she realizes, hey, I'm the junior senator from New York here, and she doesn't want to risk upstaging Chuck Schumer...
...Chao, who is not shy about her conservative ideology, may be helped through the confirmation three-ring circus by the fact that the labor and civil rights groups so vehemently opposed to Chavez's nomination have now focused their attention on Bush's attorney general-designate, John Ashcroft...
...himself when the battle is at its hottest, when losses are mounting and the enemy is preparing for the kill: he sits upright with his gold-framed reading glasses halfway down his nose, a pen and document in hand, while his paralegal, only a few feet away, performs a circus act involving two cell phones, a briefcase and an importunate reporter. Boies' pen makes sharply slanting scratches on a critical legal brief--just one stone in a brutal, driving hail of critical briefs--that must be filed immediately on behalf of Vice President Al Gore. Boies' celebrated Lands' End suit...