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Their chances will be even better if the White Sox's camp turns into a media circus courtesy of Michael Jordan. Face it--with Jordan around, the Sox will be less focused than the Hubble telescope pre-repair. Maybe a few Jack McDowell braking pitches will convince Jordan that hard courts beats hard ball. but still, he may surprise...

Author: By Mike E. Ginsberg, | Title: Baseball is Back | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

...grumblings about life, the universe and high school. (Yeah, I know that adds up to three-halves of a vocal line. When I'm in this kind of mood I tend to let these things go.) Almost all the best noisy bands still around (Frances Gumm, for example, or Circus Lupus) are indebted to Honor Role in some way; aMINIATURE, who are one of the best, are also more indebted than most. The guitar sound on Depth Five Rate Six is thicker--"grungier," if you will--than Dinty Moore's Beef Stew, thicker than you get on most metal records...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: ONE CHORD WONDERS | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...wonder men feel uneasy. Such comments make women feel uneasy, too, Genital mutilation is unpalatable, whether it be female or male, Yet the whole Bobbitt saga has been turned into a media three-ring circus, ranging from Jay Leno's talk-show quips to radio stations hosting Lorena Bobbitt Weenie Tosses, It seems that it's easier to joke about Lorena Bobbitt than it is to deal with the alarming question it raises: was Lorena Bobbitt justified in her attempt to castrate her husband...

Author: By Hallie Z. Levine, | Title: Learning From the Bobbitts | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...from reading a December 28 letter from Rooney to Middlesex Country District Attorney Thomas Reilly, which was obtained by The Crimson, one would think the lieutenant had just been to the circus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thanks for the Water Cooler Memories | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

Whenever the change began, American show business is today so pervasively Vegasy that we hardly notice anymore. The arty, sexy French-Canadian circus Cirque du Soleil had its breakthrough run in Manhattan before decamping this year to Las Vegas, and neither venue seemed unnatural. Big rock-'n'-roll concerts nowadays are often as much about wowie-kazowie production values -- giant video walls, neon, fireworks, suggestively costumed young men and women, clouds of pastel-colored smoke -- as music. Michael Jackson's highly stylized shtick -- the cosmetics, the wardrobe, the not-quite-dirty bumps and grinds, the Liberace-like gender-preference coyness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas, U.S.A. | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

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