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...judicially sensational, attending many a grotesque trial. Waters can sagely note the media's glamorizing and merchandising of felony -- "These days you can commit a crime, and two weeks later it's a TV movie" -- and in the next breath give a rave review to the Menendez circus. "A-list, A-list!" he rhapsodizes. "It's the only A-list trial in America for quite some time. Hey, it even launched a cable channel...
...thing that makes these musicals so horrendous is that, despite their circus-like choreography, childishly spectacular special effects, ostentatious costumes and sets, scores worthy of John Williams and embarrassingly inane lyrics, people shell out upwards of 50 bucks a ticket and get all gussied up to go see them. For some reason that I fail to comprehend, these events get away with masquerading as high culture. In this video age, does anything that appears in a theater automatically deserve that appellation? Even someone dressed up as a cat named Rum Tum Tiger...
...days ago, my life became pure once again. Young, strapping men are back at Fenway chewing tobacco, scratching themselves and attempting to smash little white balls with 35-inch pieces of wood. The circus that has become professional baseball is back in Boston for six months. I was there and I could not have been happier...
...unable to stop either. Special prosecutor Robert Fiske subpoenaed a 10th Administration official, senior adviser George Stephanopoulos, possibly to ask him what he may have said about Whitewater in phone conversations with Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman. As for congressional hearings, Clinton knows they will become a highly partisan circus. But the prospect nonetheless puts him in a dilemma pithily summarized by his chief Republican congressional tormentor, Iowa Representative Jim Leach: "If ((Democrats)) provide me a hearing, their President is likely to be embarrassed. If they don't, they look like they have been complicitous in working with the Executive...
Many Harvard groups concentrate on getting gigsoff campus, at clubs and bars. The Square'sofferings consist of The Black Rose and the Top ofthe Hong Kong; further out there are The MiddleEast, T. T. the Bear's, The Paradise and TheCauseway. One band, Circus of George (formerlyknown as Rank and File Pilot) has appearedoccasionally at Wellesley...