Word: circusing
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...talking to a friend and reading the paper at the same time, and you don't have to follow anything in particular. Finally overconsumption has come to the stage so that those tedious interludes are about as possible as boredom at the Ringling Brothers' all new three ring circus...
Divorced. Rhonda Fleming, 48, erstwhile film sultress (The Big Circus, The Crowded Sky, Gunfight at the OK Corral); and Hall Bartlett, 50, Hollywood producer (Crazylegs, Drango); after six years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
Inside the half-moon of the Garden's 5000 seat capacity Felt Forum better described, perhaps, as a one ring circus, hip and not so hip students and New Yorkers hustled to their seats. Remarked one girl completely lost, "Are you kidding?-- I feel like I'm in a gymnasium." A subdued audience embodying the air of tranquil expectancy and guarded reverence typical of poetry readings this...
Britain labored under a Dickensian midwinter gloom last week. Off went the garish neons of Piccadilly Circus. After twilight, Big Ben could be heard but not seen. Buckingham Palace was lit by candles and hand torches. Millions of Londoners went to and from work beneath dimmed streetlights. Thirty crews of firemen helped rescue people who were trapped in stalled elevators. Dramatizing the nation's power shortage, one BBC newscaster had to read his bulletin by candlelight. A general synod of the Church of England also was conducted-perhaps fittingly-by candlelight, but that was not what the prelates...
...billed as a Stanley Cup playoff match between the New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs. As the evening progressed, it looked more like the Ringling Bros. Circus. Late in the last period at Madison Square Garden, New York's Vic Hadfield began trading punches with Toronto's Jim Harrison. Maple Leaf Goalie Bernie Parent skated to Harrison's assistance and was intercepted by Ranger Goalie Ed Giacomin. During the four-way fray, Parent's $150 custom-made mask was snatched off the ice and thrown into the stands. Enraged when fans refused to return...