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They're planning to go to Lynah in February. A trip to the Mecca of Noise, the Circus of Thrills...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Of Bunnies and Hockey | 1/20/1989 | See Source »

Still, most folks are proud of their local boy who made good. They are convinced Kennebunkport will survive this latest act of God. "This too shall pass," intones Barbara Rencurrel with abundant Yankee stoicism. In the meantime, says Carl Bartlett, "it's like being in the stands at the circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kennebunkport, Me. A Small Town Goes Prime-Time | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

Cage has worked on other compositions in which randomness guides the musical program. In his most recent operas, "Europeras 1 and 2," he says, "the story exists only in the program. It is a collage of all operas, which makes it funny. It covers many different areas, like a circus-opera, a Hellzapoppin...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Stop Making Sense | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

What began as an unlikely alliance of whalers, oil companies, scientists and environmental activists became a massive project attended by a media circus, prompting questions about America' s conservation priorities. What about the plight of whales beyond the view of network cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Oct. 31, 1988 | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...that has placed the two campaigns in different eras. In 1960 the candidates for the first time debated on television, and politics began an almost metaphysical transformation: the external world was miraculously reconvened as powdered images upon America's internal screen. Electrons fetched out of the air poured the circus directly into the living room, into the bloodstream -- just as they would inject Viet Nam into the center of American consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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