Word: circusing
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...incident spoke loudly of Darman, who already owned an impressive record in and out of government. He also possessed a huge appetite for more responsibility, a need to perform in the political circus' center ring and a perfectionist's burden of self-doubt. That Darman, after some detours, became George Bush's Budget Director last month shows a degree of adroit tenacity rare even among Washington's tribe of striving Type A's. He appears joyful in his new post, though his return to public service dumps him into a sticky triangular paradox. Alone among Reagan advisers, Darman lent...
That is exactly what Hyatt had in mind. Hawaii, the sunshine's circus, attracts more American vacationers in winter than any other destination, and this hotel is fast becoming a main event. For their many millions, Hyatt transformed a stark moonscape of black lava rock with not so much as a sprig of vegetation into a 62-acre tropical garden, ringed by three towers, 1,241 rooms, seven restaurants, 75,000 sq. ft. of convention space, a 17,500-sq.-ft. health spa, 1,640 transplanted coconut-palm trees at $1,000 apiece and water everywhere else. The design...
Event is an understatement. A carnival. A three-ring circus. A hoedown. A wild chicken farm. A dead fish emporium. A place not to take the kids. We ain't talking "Bambi Meets Mr. Rogers," folks...
...violent crime, the Ted Bundy story captured the public imagination. Five books and a television mini-series were produced about the boy-next-door killer. With network-TV broadcasts of the murderer's last interview and scenes of crowds gathered outside the penitentiary, even his execution became a media circus. Whether Bundy intended it or not, his final encounter with death renewed his nightmarish grip on the nation's attention...
...dark smoke of riots hanging over the Washington skyline -- smoke giddy with looting and circus, but at last completely rational: a sort of clarity of bitterness...