Word: circusing
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...Clown around. The Big Apple Circus is in town until the end of May. Be a little kid for the day and piss off stuffy parents. Let your date see your care-free side and grab a beer to wash away the taste of stale cotton candy...
...have to thank for this montage of manipulation? The media, of course (yours truly included). What began as a human catastrophe (refugees drown at sea, motherless boy picked up by kindly fishermen) has been turned into something far less redeeming than a circus. When this fifth-rate soap opera began, there was talk of various positive, if peripheral, consequences. Could this little boy's plight push the U.S. government into a more reasonable relationship with Cuba? Would there be a heartwarming and speedy reunion between Elian and his father? Might the members of the American media be able...
...weeks that followed Elian's rescue, Juan Miguel watched from a distance as his son was ushered into the American Dream. Congressmen like Dan Burton flew to Miami to meet him and report to the waiting media circus that they had discussed every Yankee virtue from the Federalist papers to 401(k)s. Elian went to Disney World, hugged Barney, celebrated his sixth birthday with the gift of a toy gun. He fell in love with chocolate milk; a Florida cousin who visits regularly told TIME that whenever Elian's cousin Marisleysis poured him a glass, she made a point...
...education camp, and last week attorney Craig flew to Cuba and persuaded his client and Castro's inner circle that it would be better to let Juan Miguel come with just his new wife and baby, rather than wait for Washington to agree to play host to the circus. The Cubans wanted some assurances of a swift reunion. Craig told them that Reno's patience with the Miami relatives had run out and that the law was on Juan Miguel's side. INS officials were just waiting for Juan Miguel to set foot in America, and they would move...
...opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, young Indy gallops toward a smoke-billowing circus train and leaps aboard. That engine and those tracks are part of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, a Hollywood favorite and the highest and longest narrow-gauge railroad in the U.S. But seeing it onscreen doesn't compare with riding it firsthand, as 70,000 tourists and train buffs do each year...