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Return to childhood (with a sophisticated twist) at the current, European-style Big Apple Circus: Happy On! The big top shelters music, motion and artistry, in addition to clowns and animal acts. Big Top Tent, Boston Marine Industrial Park, Drydock Avenue, Boston...
Lions and Tigers and Elephants, Oh My! The Big Apple Circus is in town. Marine Industrial Park at Drydock Avenue and Summer Street next to the Design Center. Tickets from TicketMaster 931-2787 or in person at the box office from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Shows...
Religion is not new to the funny papers: Charles Schulz addresses it in Peanuts, although he notes, "I've avoided preaching, because I am a reasonable Midwestern student of the Bible." Bil Keane's The Family Circus portrays church and even heaven, but in a sentimental, child's-eye mode. Hart's religious strips are hard-core gospel. Last year Wiley's Dictionary, B.C.'s font of wacky definitions, featured "cross reference": no words, just three rags nailed to a cross, bearing biblical citations for Christ's suffering. The effect, for someone expecting the usual caveman shtick, is like finding...
...this fat little kid, T-Bird, starts a Girl Haters Club in fourth grade, and Laureen Miranda--she's huge--beats him up, and he pops her one, and she rat-finks... As with any good coming-of-age story, non-sequiturs are tailed up like circus elephants. T-Bird's mother shacks up with the Oakland chapter of Hell's Angels. His vengeful father, long split, teaches him philosophy: get even. Somehow he learns to play the trumpet well enough to join a neighborhood Mexican band. He grows six inches in a summer and stops being fat. He takes...
Moreover, the vague speeches, the trite chants of "no justice, no peace" and banging of tom-toms and tambourines created a circus-like atmosphere that made you wonder whether the Faculty or administrators would take the students' demands seriously at all. Flyers promoting the event promised "great music, entertaining speakers, delicious refreshments, and invigorating chants. It's a terrific opportunity to show your support for justice at Harvard." Was it a party or a protest? Even after stopping to listen to part of the rally, one thirty something woman turned to me and asked, "What is this about?" I half...