Word: circusing
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...liked to work in obscurity. Within the agency there were some who compared her to John le Carre's fictional Connie Sachs, the brilliant researcher who knew all the Soviet cases and embodied the institutional memory of the Circus. But Vertefeuille did not encourage such talk; it veered too close to a kind of celebrity...
...while, it seemed as if there were as many potential John Doe No. 2s as clowns tumbling out of a circus car. An Australian tourist in Ontario was dragged from his car at gunpoint and questioned for four hours by authorities; a hitchhiker was detained in Ohio; a man driving through Georgia in a BMW with Oklahoma plates was stopped by a local sheriff's deputy. The most colorful detainees, Gary Allen Land and Robert Jacks -- two drifters whose travels mysteriously paralleled McVeigh's in the days before the bombing -- were arrested on Tuesday in Carthage, Missouri, and released...
...Barnum is known to many as the founder of the Barnum & Bailey circus, or perhaps as the man behind tiny General Tom Thumb and Jumbo the Elephant (whose charred remains and untarnished tail can still be found at Tufts). Barnum was indeed a legend in his time with his constant attractions, frauds and hoaxes. He has become a central figure in any study of American popular culture, and is as much an American cultural icon as the Statue of Liberty or Marcia Brady...
...does not live by Bread and Circus alone," Malenfant joked, referring to the specialty grocery chain with two stores in Cambridge...
With the horrific doings in Oklahoma City, the doings in Los Angeles have quietly and appropriately slipped to the back pages of most people's minds. The Simpson double-murder trial is still a circus, but with all the sidebars and sideshows it's a slow-moving one, like a line of aged elephants lumbering around the big top. For months, the media focus had been on big names: Judge Lance Ito as he slowly lost his patience, breezy houseguest Kato Kaelin as he triumphantly pranced into his 16th minute of fame. But court watchers were reminded again last week...