Word: circusing
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...that is helpful. It heats up the space where we are." As a spiritual showman (shaman), Bly seeks to produce certain effects. He is good at them. He could not begin to see the men's movement, and his place in it, as a depthless happening in the goofy circus of America. It is odd that Bly is not more put off by the earnest vulgarity of the enterprise...
...theatergoers get an inexpensive night out: food-and- entertainment packages range from $33 (Prom Queens) to $75 (Tony n' Tina's top). At best, as in Song of Singapore and Pageant, audiences are reminded of theater's power to create a world out of song and shadow -- to offer circus and stage, nightclub and Kiwanis Club, in one beguiling bundle...
...last week's summit between George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev symbolized the end of the cold war, it may also have marked the end of a rather less historic phenomenon: the Great International Media Circus, with its Tibet-size press rooms wired for every conceivable form of human communication; "photo ops" in which a couple of dozen photographers viciously compete to see who can take the same picture the most times; legions of bored, humiliated reporters wandering aimlessly about with the glazed eyes of the living dead; and assorted bearers, runners and factotums, each armed with a walkie-talkie...
...circus folding its tent? Economics. Pan American World Airways, from which the White House charters the press plane, is under bankruptcy proceedings and is in the process of selling its assets. If Pan Am goes under, no other airline appears both willing and able to replace it as the official purveyor of 747s to the press corps. "No other airline wants to do it," says Gary Wright of the White House Travel Office. "The bottom line is the airlines don't make enough money out of it, and the p.r. value is negligible...
...case the media circus is likely to continue. "This is the worst case of pretrial publicity that I've seen in the recent past," says Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University law school and a legal ethics specialist. "In my view the prosecutor's tactic was strategically brilliant but improper. If victory is the only goal, she's measurably increased her chance of winning -- but she's abused her power by jeopardizing the chances of a fair trial." Perhaps. But given the Smith team's efforts to dig up dirt on the alleged victim's history, neither side...