Word: circusing
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...because it will ensure that all Americans can become involved in the political process not just those that have straightjacketed themselves into the establishment. Perot's exclusion is no tragedy. Most people think he has no chance, and he would have turned an important discussion into a three-ring circus. The principle of his exclusion, however, is alarming, and no self-respecting democrat should forget that...
...blocking her intestinal passageway. Though authorities knew the hippo was suffering some kind of obstruction, they did not perform surgery, fearing she would die during the procedure. Nyla, 31, had lived at the zoo for more than 20 years after spending her youth as part of a Las Vegas circus...
...occupy most of the time can sound like a pioneer of the everyday. Peters extracts muted poetry from lives that might seem either prosaic, like taxi drivers (A Room with a View) and people locked in a traffic jam (Waiting for the Light to Turn Green), or dangerous (Circus Girl). Carmelita, in Border Town, leaves her own baby at home "to love somebody else's child" as a nanny: "She keeps her distance and she tows the line/ Cause she knows where it's been drawn." Peters' world holds more ifs than epiphanies. "The secret of life," promised...
...stop circus, with its even more bizarre array of characters and sideshows, continued until we graduated, accelerating in madness with the invasion of Cambodia and the killings at Kent State. By June 1971, we were exhausted by the sheer intensity of our rage, and so was Pusey, whose premature retirement began at our commencement...
Along with the media circus that has resulted from the corporate homogenization of the journalism has come the decline of participatory democracy. The media no longer understand the ultimate flexibility of government or the wellspring of its power. Not that the individual journalists working for the major concerns are themselves evil, but they are trapped in a system that perpetuates mind mush as news. They are assigned stories that matter not in the least to the viewers or readers, that have zero impact on their daily lives. The news only serves to maintain the status quo, in which...