Word: circusing
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...case has attracted an extraordinary amount of media coverage because of dramatic courtroom testimony given by witnesses and because of the unusually light sentences the guilty doctors received. Sherry added to the circus-like excitement surrounding the various trials when he disappeared temporarily this summer, only to reemerge arguing that he should not be jailed because of a health condition. Finally, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan recently became involved in the rape trial when he denied a personal appeal filed with his office by Hussain and Lefkowitz...
...report on the anxieties of draft-age youths in Tajikistan, a republic bordering the Soviet client government of parlous Afghanistan. Earlier he had detailed the fondness of ranking bureaucrats for racy Western films that are banned for the Soviet masses, and had exposed the bribes extracted by a circus director who chose which performers traveled abroad. More consequential, in April Newsweek nettled the Soviets with a decidedly premature cover story, to which Nagorski contributed, depicting Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev as a dying man who was losing political control. But Nagorski got more than a routine dressing down. Press Office Deputy...
...Baker), whom McAnuff apparently fantasizes as clones of Waiting for Godot's Estragon and Vladimir. Stage left features the ornate living quarters of the Red Dragon, Manfred Von Richthofen (John Vickery), who is sometimes joined by his adjutant (Jeffrey Jones) and a swishy fellow pilot in the Flying Circus named Hermann Goering (Bob Gunton...
...ramshackle plot concerns Von Richthofen's destiny after he makes his 80th kill. Some of his fellow officers and the unseen General Erich Ludendorff urge him to retire from the Flying Circus so that he may present himself as the untarnished hero-leader of postwar Germany's resurrection. There is no historical evidence for this. In the play, Von Richthofen shows no stomach for the task but seems to have a premonition about who does. An ominous-looking lance corporal (Mark Petrakis) skulks about...
...quad since 1897, when, according to many accounts, European Aerialist Lena Jordan first did the triple somersault. The triple is now performed regularly, but it is still an accomplishment reserved for the very best aerialists. Yet Miguel, 17, who represents the fifth generation of a family of Mexican circus performers, was able to do the triple when he was 13. He spun so fast and flew so high that he was urged to go for four...