Word: circusing
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...show's entire design, with its minimalist sets, gaudy costumes, and exposed spotlights, convincingly evoked the atmosphere of a European circus. While some effects, such as striking sillouhettes against the bright backdrop, worked beautifully, others, such as the projection of stars onto the ceiling, unfortunately looked extremely amateurish...
...elicits responses from even the most taciturn Quadlings. Some walk through the shuttle's middle set of doors and emit a sly smile at the novelty. Some grab the metal poles lining the seats and swing around like circus performers. And some simply genuflect at any sighting...
...regulation added this year. Nicknamed "the dead dog rule," the provision declares that mushers will be disqualified if any of their dogs expire on the 1,151-mile trail due to a preventable error. Swenson reacted to his expulsion by saying that the Iditarod had become a "circus" run by people who knew little about dog racing. "I have nothing to prove," Swenson told KTUU-TV in Anchorage, "There are other dog races in the world." According to Swenson, his 16-dog team didn't seem right after passing through knee-deep overflow ?- freezing slush -- while crossing a river...
...that Coffey is sincere, and not merely throwing around buzzwords, then he has a distorted sense of what "credibility" and "community" mean. The proposition that $15,000 of our money--money given to the council by Dining Services to use on undergraduates' behalf--should be used to provide a circus is a severe misjudgment of strategies to make the council more credible and more effective...
...decided that we could talk about the primaries in the classroom forever and never convey the oddness of the New Hampshire primary, which is like somebody's living room and a national circus," she said in a telephone interview last night...