Word: circusing
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Everybody loves a clown, particularly a princess. So Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco graced a three-ringside seat at the opening night of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Manhattan last week. The official reason for her presence in New York was the christening of a new, 750-passenger luxury liner, the Cunard Princess. Grace, 47, hurled the traditional bottle of bubbly with impressive brio. "Wonderful arm," quipped New York...
...relatives as "a prisoner in her own house," have been forced out of public view by tourists. NO VISITORS, NO TRESPASSING reads a sign in front of her house. "Maybe we should just put a tent over the entire town," Billy says, "and declare the whole f--thing a circus...
Very little-as one horrid event after another has proved in the past two decades-except possibly Director Frankenheimer's skill at building action sequences like the foul-up of the Super Bowl circus, which is the climax of Black Sunday. He has always been at his best when a script presents large technical challenges: the tight spaces of Birdman of Alcatraz, the wild railroad chase in The Train, the assassination attempt at a political convention in The Manchurian Candidate, to name the best of them all. Here he has more and perhaps richer elements than ever to play...
...potential conflict-of-interest problems arising from his previous position at Harvard. After generating some heat, but very little light, the members of the Finance Committee failed to resolve the very questions they raised, and ignored issues of possible future importance. Sadly, the Champion confirmation hearings resembled the circus that was performed all too often on Capitol Hill this spring...
...trust just about anywhere--in a coffeeshop or over a drink. But he says he feels this is a critical stage because he must make his patient believe that hypnosis is useful in a practical way, that it is natural and far removed from the talent show or the circus. Sampson then applies one of a variety of hypnotic techniques--he has a repertoire of about seven--best suited for his patient. At this point, he uses hypnosis to induce a state of complete relaxation. There are many different depths and intensities of hypnosis. Sampson has found from experience that...