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...Uranium mining on the edge of the Grand Canyon National Park creates a threat that flash floods might wash radioactive debris into the park's water sources. Some 50,000 small plane and helicopter flights a year for tourists have turned the place into a flying circus, prompting federal authorities to consider limits on low-flying aircraft...
...will be quite a circus," Rodriguez says. "They won't have languages in common at all, and my little brother will be stuck translating...
...took them to the circus, the aquarium and the zoo," says Joanna M. Miller '88 who was a counselor two years...
Tradition is honored, of course. There are first-rate aerialists, teeterboard balancers, trick bicyclists and lots of clowns. But what the gifted Canadians are presenting is less a conventional succession of circus acts -- there are, for example, no animals -- than a wondrous flow of fantasies, produced with all the drive and coherence of a Broadway musical...
...Call it circus theater. As the show begins, a dozen drably dressed country people, simple villagers caricatured with half-masks, wander into the tent's single ring. They look timidly at the ropes and rigging, the aerialists' gear. . What if . . . Whoosh! Colored smoke floods into the ring; lights swirl. A mysterious sprite materializes from vapor: the beautiful and alarming Queen of the Night (Angela Laurier) is here, not just to call the circus into being but to transform the peasants themselves into clowns and acrobats. Instantly a fat old uncle (Michel Barette) is undressed, then recostumed as -- Help! -- the show...