Word: circusing
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...arts, the distinction between the conceptualized and the realized, between the thought and the thing, has been getting fuzzier for some time. Poems about writing poetry are now cliche--indeed since Yeats's "circus animals," his faithful images deserted him, verse has turned in on itself to the point where most poems seem to be written about being unable to compose poetry. Prose, too, introspects to analysis or suggestion modern novelists seem lost in a funhouse of potential trips that stay potential, journalists discuss other journalists' intents in the New Yorker and the 20 most interesting minutes of the Carter...
...pass but it doesn't mean much. No one guards the door to the convention hall itself and press conferences are punctured by partisan applause and arguments between non-media onlookers and the speaker. The press is amused for a time, but by week's end tires of the circus...
...turned out to be the key person in the production. Thomson admired an earlier version that presented Mother as an animated album with quaint figures suggesting tinted photographs. Realist Indiana had other ideas. Incorporating Pop art's hard-edge feeling into the production, he splashed the stage with circus colors of red, gold, green and blue...
Public entertainment in the imperial city assumed an influence not unlike that of television today. Armies of Roman unemployed, living on a dole from the state, were diverted by athletic contests and theatrical spectacles. At the Colosseum, some 50,000 watched gladiators in combat with wild beasts. In the Circus Maximus, 260,000 cheered on charioteers as they raced in perilous Ben-Hur style. To supply those circuses, hunters fanned through the empire, caging behemoths and great wild cats. So many animals were rounded up that even then there were endangered species: the hippopotamus was made extinct in Nubia...
...recommend whether or not to terminate the project. He finds the space center in a mess: books, wires, levers and clothes strewn about; everywhere the sound of short-circuiting. As he steps through the main entrance hatch, a small figure darts behind a corner and a child's circus ball comes rolling toward his feet. The shot calls to mind the sinister flashes of a child bouncing a ball down a dark stairwell in Cabaret: eerie, unexplained, foreboding...