Word: circusing
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...press conference is part of the circus before the game. The National League manager, Cincinnati's Sparky Anderson, was asked if he had a strong bench for the game. Knitting his brows, he said that he did, since he has 29 of the best players in baseball, and there should be a few good ones on the bench...
...green and white Volkswagen van and trailer, carrying props and a gaudily striped circus tent, drives along the highways ahead of the 4-m.p.h. raft. The idea is to pique the curiosity of the local townfolk with the circus tent and catch their interest with oldtime medicine-show acts in the first half of the program-a jerky juggling act, for example, or the wonders of "Miraculo" the Magician, an exotic gentleman "just returned from the remote and distant shores of Long Island...
Arbus's rejection of this technique had many reverberations. It demonstrated a strong desire to collaborate openly and sincerely with her subjects, to put herself on the line, instead of sneaking a shot behind their backs as though they were part of a circus peep show. By obtaining prior approval, she accorded them the dignity and status of individual human beings. This emphasis on their individuality prevents one from lumping them together for any sort of superficial moralizing, or using them, for instance, as sociological evidence in an attempt to justify the value of photography to society...
...life in this country." Far from accomodating their lifestyle to that of the straight world, they intensify it. They spend several days completely twisted on dope, booze, and lack of sleep, and find this state of mind matches that of the gambling loonies who hang out at the Circus-Circus along with the Forty Flying Carazito Brothers, flaming gorilla, and Six Nymphet Sisters from San Diego. In fact, nobody notices how twisted they are, for in Vegas, one can pursue his own dream, no matter how savage -- just as long as one doesn't "burn the locals." And the doped...
...talent began to fail, he turned to Hollywood, where his screenplay for Splendor in the Grass (1961) won an Oscar. Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1970), a novel about a woman brutally isolated from society, met with modest success. The manuscript of an other Inge novel, The Boy From the Circus, was found in his living room on the day of his death - rejected by a New York publisher...