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...conflicting egos, but most of it is just because we are all so passionate about political reform," he writes. "It's healthy in some way, but I think it has to stop. We are shooting ourselves in the foot, really, whenever we come across as disorganized or a circus...
...money and later rebuilt with the bounties of multinational entertainment cartels. The scene is almost as hot as the desert itself. The Beautiful People congregate nightly at The Beach and Club Rio. If that doesn't work out, there are always the cheap whores walking the street down by Circus Circus. If that doesn't work out, there's always a cheap room and $1 blackjack waiting back at the Western. This is Vegas--a tiny slice of hell just where it ought...
...crooner Pat Boone. Catering to all tastes and talents, this five-day down-home extravaganza, May 3-7, features a food and crafts fair with homemade wares from applesauce and pastries to quilts and Barbie-doll dresses; a 10-km footrace; a pro-am golf tournament; a three-ring circus; jazz, bluegrass and country music; and a 3 1/2-hour parade with 50 high school marching bands...
...Better or Worse) (Basic Books; 418 pages; $25), David Frum revisits, with a good deal of wit and a surprising ambivalence, what he calls "America's low tide." Popular memory tends to conjure the '70s as the bummed-out, banalized aftermath of the '60s, which were the authentic circus. Frum has a more interesting take. He considers the '60s, for all their noise and flash, comparatively inconsequential. "But the 'social' transformation of the 1970s was real and was permanent," he says. It left a country more dynamic, tolerant, socially equal and sexual, but also less literate, less polite and almost...
...voice that has not been properly heard either in the noise of the council's "circus" or The Crimson's coverage of this farce is that of the student body which voted overwhelmingly for the Driskell/Burton ticket. Unlike The Crimson's editorial staff, I am sure that if presented with the "facts" and not The Crimson's "semantic manipulations" the student body would reiterate its support of Burton as vice president of the council...