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...exaggeration perhaps. When J.P. Morgan testified at a Senate banking investigation in 1933, a circus pressagent put a midget...
...lamentable that Judge James B. McGuire decided last week to send the abortion case against Dr. Kenneth Edelin to trial in Boston in January. If the nature of the hearings on the defense's dismissal motions is any indication, the trial will be circus-like and justice may prove prejudiced...
...that pretrial publicity is never a hazard to justice. The longstanding argument over the rights of free press v. the rights to fair trial goes back, in its modern phase, to cases like the Lindbergh kidnaping: the courtroom at Bruno Hauptmann's trial turned into a grotesque circus, jammed with 150 reporters and cameramen. In the case of Cleveland Osteopath Sam Sheppard, accused of murdering his wife in 1954, the local newspapers ran a virtual crusade for conviction before and during the trial. Incredibly, the jurors at first were allowed to go home at night to read the news...
...Foxx before he was San-fordized, or Philip Roth confronting his middle-class American Jewish background in ways that have been judged, perhaps too hastily, as self-hateful and tasteless. Likewise, many blacks may find themselves both amused and offended by The Last Days of Louisiana Red, a combination circus freak show, detective story, Negro Dead Sea Scroll and improvised black-studies program...
...Theatre Collection, housed beneath Lamont Library, is one of the largest research facilities in the world for the study of many aspects of performance, including magic, vaudeville, minstrels and circus...