Word: circusing
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...weekend nights are a giveaway. And inside it's all action. On a recent Saturday night, hundreds of men milled around the outer rooms drinking and flirting. Around the tennis-court-sized dance floor an Eminem concert featuring the singer performing with what appeared to be members of a circus troupe, including a dwarf, looped on half a dozen video screens, and pulsing lasers and strobe lights flashed over the mass of writhing, sweating bodies. It's been like this every weekend for the last couple of years, the club's manager says, with dancing continuing until the last customer...
...permissions and clearances; passes and badges of various colors and sizes. And what is clear is that the closer and higher you are to the U.S. military the easier you move, the smoother you glide through to the beast's belly: the U.S. embassy. It is the tackiest, strangest circus attraction this side of Vegas. A Starbucks-like coffee shop with baristas from Madras sells cappuccinos in the main rotunda. Heavy blast-proof doors - identical to those at U.S. embassies around the world - are fitted into the regal marble lintels Saddam built...
...true that, over the past few years, for those who do not speak our language, it has been the silent artists of French culture who have hit the headlines: the mime artist Marcel Marceau, Jacques Cousteau, our choreographers, our circus acts. They represent our quiet resistance to the hubbub of the world. But we would still like to impress you, modestly, in the French style; to make ourselves heard, shout a bit, throw a few tantrums. This isn't easy when, with your powerful American cultural industries, your worldwide machinery for projecting image, sound, software, desires, you have been...
...Part of culture is the ability to develop new artistic forms. In this respect, France is responsible for having considerably revived the worlds of contemporary dance, circus arts and street theater. Our artists in these fields are in demand all over the world and meet with resounding success: recently in Santiago, the theater group Royal de Luxe got 1 million people out in the street...
...there with the Iowa State Fair and the state high school basketball tournament, the caucuses have become a defining event for Iowans - and a task they've embraced. "We have a job to do and people are watching," says Tom Morain, a state historian. "But once the circus moves on, I don't think we expect anyone to continue to pay attention to us. We'll want to think that we acted responsibly, that we took the measure of the candidates and did a respectable...