Word: circusing
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...media scrutiny will keep the children's services office in check.) Gender PAC, a Washington-based group that lobbies for equality for transgendered people, has also helped publicize the case. Transgender activists around the world have contacted the county children's agency in protest. A growing media circus greets each court development. Last week the child's case was stalled while everyone argued for days over whether cameras should be in the courtroom...
...What makes the whole circus all the more silly is that FBI investigators are still not sure a federal crime has been committed. The only plausible one they could come up with - theft from a federally financed activity - is so much of a stretch that it might not apply: It's hard to argue, after all, that the papers and tape are valuable enough to trigger the statute, which requires that the stolen material be worth more than...
...believe that when I see it. It seems inevitable that if an extreme football league created by a wrestling maven is to be successful, the circus act element that defines pro wrestling will eclipse whatever actual playing is going on. Otherwise, you've essentially got a glorified version of the Arena Football League, which most casual fans aren't aware even exists...
...work; this is the version of "Statesboro Blues" that the Allman Brothers copied, and Davis went on to appear with George Harrison at the Concert for Bangladesh before his untimely demise from drugs. No wonder this band was the only American representative in the Rolling Stones' "Rock 'n' Roll Circus" movie; unfortunately, they never made another album with this kind of fire...
Nasser, who was initially wary of getting caught up in an election-year circus, has decided to attend congressional hearings set for this week. He has promised to release all company documents showing what Ford knew and when it knew it; his counterpart at Bridgestone/Firestone, CEO Masatoshi Ono, will also be there. Both are sure to incur the wrath of politicians fed up with what they view as stonewalling. "This whole thing stinks," said Representative Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who is chairman of the House Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection. "You can't tell me someone at Firestone...