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...candy-cane fantasia, the whole food chain is on display. The roustabouts wriggle like worms; some of the featured artistes are dressed as tigers or lizards. The clowns could be from a Greenwich Village Halloween parade: Munchkins and bathing beauties, Road Warriors and samurai. This is a circus even Madonna could love -- commedia dell'arte as restaged by surrealists in a birthday-party mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Le Cirque Fantastique | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...York City to become an actor. He roams the U.S., never managing to hold down a job or a relationship; we see him dodge an arranged marriage in Minneapolis, grab a drag queen's penis in New York (mistaking it for a gun) and lose a job with the circus when he slithers, hung-over, out of his walrus suit in the middle...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: A River Worth Reading | 4/8/1993 | See Source »

...rule of law. Federal judges are not elected nor are they subject to removal. They were placed above the political process by the framers of the constitution so they could check the excesses of the other two branches with impunity. Now, sadly, they have been dragged into the circus that they are supposed to keep under control...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Judicial--and Political--Restraint | 4/6/1993 | See Source »

...loyal liberal visits the Republican Circus of the Stars...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Pandemonium on the Right | 2/27/1993 | See Source »

...first meeting of the HRAC (that's the new one) was at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday in Lamont Library, and it was a veritable Republican Circus of the Stars. For the first time since high school, I got to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Former HRRC (that's the old one) president Harry J. Wilson '93, current HRRC publicity director Bradford P. Campbell '95 and recently resigned HRRC board members Fine and Brian J. Erskine '96 were all in attendance...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Pandemonium on the Right | 2/27/1993 | See Source »

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