Word: circusing
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...author, a sportsman and TIME'S tourist-about-Moscow gives his own Olympian view of the XXII Games and offers his reflections on life and language, soldiery and circus acts in the Soviet capital...
...kept very much to the Intourist regimen when they first arrived -traveling to and from the Games or the city sights in the big-windowed Ikarus buses from Hungary that have a steel bar at the back with empty coat hangers swaying when the bus is in motion. The circus was a big favorite. The first act features the famous Filatov bears and the second, a troupe of huge and somewhat soporific seals who perform in a large water tank with a stage, Like an island, in the center. On the night I was there, one seal could...
...miles across the country to take many of the issue's photographs. Reporter-Researcher John Kohan, who speaks fluent Russian and was making his fourth trip to the U.S.S.R., visited a psychiatric outpatient center, rode with an ambulance team, went behind the scenes at the old Moscow circus, spent a day at a tractor factory...
...audience watching the new show, A Cure by Laughter, at the Old Moscow Circus already suspects what "doctor" from outer space is going to pop out of that tiny spaceship landing in the single ring, and their delight is tangible. Sure enough, what emerges is no astronaut, considering the oversize checkered cap perched on unruly shocks of blond hair, black velvet jacket, red scarf, clodhopper shoes and, of course, trademark potato nose. After 30 years with the circus, Oleg Popov, 49, is regarded as the king of clowns even beyond Soviet borders. How long did it take to dream...
...during the week and the problem of entertaining them on weekends. He imagines owning an enormous building that would make life simple for fathers in his position: "A place of swimming pool, badminton and tennis courts, movie theaters, restaurants, soda fountains, batting cages, a zoo, an art gallery, a circus, aquarium, science museum, hundreds of restrooms, two always in sight, everything in the tender charge of women trained in first aid and Montessori, no uniforms, their only style warmth and cheer...