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...meditation peopled by Fellini's patented galleries of grotesques -hunchbacks, dwarfs, crazed aristocrats, a giant strong woman in a circus and a particularly loony occultist (Cicely Browne). But the presentation of most of these figures is so inert that they constitute a series of waxworks, tableaux morts. The film's only burst of real energy, a tumultuous Venetian festival at the beginning, is quickly dissipated. Its loveliest image is completely gratuitous: the candle-laden chandeliers of a theater are lowered to the floor and extinguished by footmen wielding long fans...
Accessibility is not a quality commonly associated with the work of Federico Fellini, but his film The Clowns reveals an ability to handle a journalistic topic like the world of the circus in a straightforward manner. The quasi-documentary approach to the material checks Fellini's growing affinity for the self-indulgent excesses that emerged in Roma and Satyricon, yet the gaudiness and affected posturing of the clowns enables him to at least satisfy this inclination without damaging the artistry of the film. An ultimately compassionate insight into the bittersweet experiences of life's buffoons, The Clowns provides a fairly...
...sang Carter's favorite hymn, Amazing Grace, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., bundled up in a heavy black overcoat and brown hat, praised Carter for not forgetting the little people. According to an aide, the Carters skipped that ceremony to keep it from "turning into a circus," and worshiped instead at Washington's First Baptist Church...
...Jiggets (to the Chicago Bears) and the rest of the high flyers mentioned above. After Northeastern's field events crew outscored the Crimson's in Saturday's lostt, coach Bill McCurdy and assistant Ed Stowell knew that they face a tough job of rebuilding the depleted flying circus...
Beginning with the GBCs, then, look to see if McCurdy and Stowell can build a squad to match the flying field events circus of 1975-76. They face a tough challenge...