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Today's Honest Carnie Sir / Re your article on our recent studies of the American carnival [May 28]: a major finding of our researches has been that the carnival world is rapidly changing and that crooked games and illegal activities are becoming quite rare. Like the circus before it, the carnival is today largely a "Sunday school" operation. In any case, the vast majority of carnival personnel have little involvement in-and often great contempt for-the illegal activities that go on in carnivals...
This nearly overwhelming film is part epic allegory, part lighthearted Brechtian morality play and part three-ring circus. It is the saga of a young English coffee salesman (Malcolm McDowell), a description as precise and inadequate as saying that Gulliver's Travels concerns the misadventures of a ship's surgeon. In O Lucky Man! Lindsay Anderson calls on all the resources of the cinema, challenges them and extends them. The movie is brash, eclectic, innovative, deeply personal and elusive-all at once. It is a transcendent movie; perhaps even a great...
Nevertheless, Harvard had no choice but to make a change, regardless of the cost and embarrassment of replacing a coach who still had a year to go on his contract. Under Harrison, the Harvard basketball program had become a circus of undisciplined talent and unrealized potential. During his tenure as coach, players moved in and out of the program more rapidly than the acts change in a Ringling Brothers performance...
Waltzing up against dead ends, blank faces and loneliness, Malamud's people are fated to develop into the agonizing absurdity of his "Talking Horse." With the Jewish name of Abramovitz, this circus freak bears all the historical suffering and doubts of his race, as well as the unique dilemma of wondering whether he is "a man in a horse or a horse that talks like a man." Opting for the former, Abramovitz devises an act of his own in which he begs the circus audience to set him free from the body of a horse and the tyranny...
Almirante suggested that if he ever goes to trial, he will turn the proceedings into a Roman circus. "I am going to call all the other [political] parties as witnesses," he said, "because all of them have collaborated with us at one time or another." While he did not minimize the violence that provoked the parliamentary vote against him, he blamed most of it on leftists and the rest on an anti-M.S.I. conspiracy on the part of the government: "I have also accused the Ministry of the Interior itself of having organized the violence of those rightist groups...