Word: circusing
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...great press circus was on. The Oldham News was out with a major story the next day; London's Daily Mail is said to have offered $190 to an Oldham reporter for the parents' names, and journalists began pouring into town from around the world. At least one posed as a friend of a patient to gain admittance to the hospital. Three Japanese photographers began shooting pictures of every pregnant woman in sight. Said a hospital spokesman: "It seems if you move anything, there is a reporter behind...
...finally happened. Yesterday Billy Martin resigned as manager of the New York Yankees, leaving the defending World Champions in the midst of a five-game winning streak that finds them ten games behind the Red Sox. The Yankees have lost the best manager in baseball, a victim of the circus of egos and acrimony that has surrounded them since the beginning of last season. Throughout that period, Martin tried to rise above the storm, concentrating on getting the club together. It wasn't easy. Last year, the Yanks played aggressively mediocre ball until the beginning of August. Then they finally...
...aggressive posture of the cat is the locked-eye gaze," she is told, "cats will transfer this reaction to humans, and when the stranger says 'Hi!' a cat will, according to its nature, back away or make a threatening gesture or merely ignore." At Ringling Brothers Circus, Animal Trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams soothes his tigers with a friendly "Wuzza, wuzza, wuzza." "I have this feeling," he says, "the animal knows how nice I am when he hears me; it's not the words but the sound of it." Gebel-Williams has little use for bears because they...
Cambridge in the summertime is simply alive with street entertainers of every description, profession and ability. on any given evening, hundreds of people will gather around acts featuring jugglers, musicians or magicians. Cambridge is an urban circus in the true sense of the word...
...most interesting etchings was a comparatively small one (approx. 14" by 20"), the 1958 "Les Philosophies II." The black silhouettes are almost like calligraphy with brilliant patches of yellow, pink and lime dashing the picture into life. It looks rather like a circus scene and reminds you a bit of the wire Statuette of Alexander Calder. "Le Samourai" again is reminiscent of characters painted with a thick brush. Only it is as if the long black strokes suddenly begin to drip down with the sheer weight of the paint and hence bulge at the ends like some monstrous pseudopodia...