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...show has been playing for two days in a circus tent at Hale's 5-H Ranch, a drive-through animal park in Cape Girardeau, Mo. It has brought animal fanciers from 43 states, New Zealand, Mexico and Canada. Close to 2,000 head of animals are on hand, including a couple of elephants (the bidding on one goes to $21,000, but there is no sale, because the owner values them at $40,000 apiece). There are four giraffes, axis deer, oryxes, African crowned cranes and elands that were hand-raised and are, says Hale, "as gentle...
NOBODY COULD FAULT Breuer on his showman's instincts, except maybe the blockish Cambridge bourgeoisie who have made walking out of Lulu all the rage. But all of this only makes Lulu a sort of elevated circus; a lot of the good things you could say about Breuer could be said about P.T. Barnum, with little modification. There is an awful lot of camp, and because of Breuer's theatre sense it almost always works. But it's still camp. And there are shock effects--I am thinking particularly of the murder at the end--that work as well...
...more or less incoherent on paper; the only unifying nexus is the mind of the playwright, and that, of course, is his alone. The plays need a strong directorial concept to bring that mind onto the stage, to fill in the lacunae between the playwright's own macabre circus rings. Breuer's approach only succeeds in fracturing it still more...
Nothing went right last night, or at least very little. Even when Billy Cleary's skaters battled back to tie Northeastern--momentarily--at five apiece early in the third period, they had little to look back on except occasional flashes of individual talent amid a circus of give-aways, broken plays, Wacky Racers fast breaks and slapshot prayers from the blue line. It was one of those utterly ridiculous games, where three-goal leads topple like Persian Gulf governments, and "defense" seems like a wistful memory from a bygone...
...LEADERS of the Moral Majority crusade are absolutely convinced that they are right. Once the fire has seized the convert--once the seed of conviction is planted at a circus-tent revival meeting or through a multi-cassette mail-order course in Christian fundamentalism--it burns, un-flickering, fueled by the comfort of Absolutes. A protecting barrier between the flame and the winds of thought, rationality, diversity, and complication, the Bible is the answer book. Right-wing conservatism--the Way. The Book--the Truth. The flame--the Light. Only one thing missing...