Word: circusing
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...commits the sin of blasphemy should be stoned to death. In Britain, where blasphemy was still punishable by death until the 18th century, the last actual prosecution occurred in 1921, when John William Gott was sentenced to nine months at hard labor for writing that Christ looked like a circus clown as he rode into Jerusalem...
...features not only exotic African beasts on a Serengeti-esque plain but also such other threatened species as snake charmers and belly dancers. Tampa, with good beaches and reasonable prices, is a fine base for a vacation that might also include visits to Orlando's attractive Sea World, Circus World and a waxworks museum, the Stars Hall of Fame, featuring Hollywood greats...
Cyrk--from the Polish word for circus--is a small silk screen design studio in Rockport, owned by two businessmen who met tending bar four years ago. Greg Shlopak and Paul Butman feel they successfully combine creativity and business: mostly, they produce T-shirts, those ubiquitous billboards for the body. The shop works to capacity--over 100,000 T-shirts will be printed this year, double last year's figure...
...heavy summertime demands they work staggered shifts from 8 a.m. to midnight. As the business grows, the owners will have to decide whether to replace labor with costly machines. They also foresee some kind of profit sharing plan. But for now, during a T-shirt boom, Cyrk, their private circus, means bread...
More sportswriters should follow Dean's lead: they should try to say less and talk more. Baseball, after all, is for all its pinstriped glory still just a game, the biggest and best circus America could find to go with its daily bread. Yet so many writers insist on finding some cosmic meaning in baseball, some hidden truth in each line drive and Texas leaguer. Some people just never learn...