Word: circusing
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...intimately recorded that it became almost unendurably real-yet also impossibly remote, 9,000 miles away, a dark hallucination. And along with the war on the tube came the rest of the theater of the '60s: riots, assassinations, the antiwar moratoriums, the Yippies' carmagnoles, the circus of the counterculture...
...cultural expatriates of the 1920s. When the catalogue essay for his present show of 50 drawings and a few paintings at New York City's Marlborough Gallery compares him with Idaho-born Ezra Pound in London-"the Yankee outsider who has the energy to float a circus, and the courage to initiate its polemics"-it reflects this startling English view...
...series of jobs painting sideshow banners and Kewpie dolls drew him to the Big Top, and in 1922 he joined a small troupe as an aerialist-clown. He achieved lasting fame when he broke with the white-faced clown tradition to create the ragtag Willie, who delighted millions of circus fans with his soulful stares while nibbling on a cabbage, or misguided attempts to sweep up a moving spotlight with a broom...
...select. What they need is some artistic distance. And what Andy Borowitz really needs is a good editor. In No Net, he's let loose and with the cost of this production he should have been leashed. As Bucks says when he describes the audience's reaction to his circus, I haven't seen such a disappointed crowd since the Chicago Fire." (Joke...
...story of the Circus Maximillian (pun)--billed as "the second greatest show on earth" (joke)suffering from a case of low net profits (bad pun). Its owner, Maximillian Bucks (get it), decides to save the big top from a flop by having his star performer, Natalie Yellowbird, star in an extravaganza in honor of President Wilson. Throw in a Wall Street broker who embezzles $1 million from his secretary, a detective hot on their trail and a chorus of circus clones and, well, the plot thickens...