Word: circusing
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...performers get in the way of the music, and that the only way to play is in the quiet privacy of the recording studio, where perfection is the only reality. "Listening to music," he says, "should be the most intimate and personal experience. The mass excitement generated in the circus atmosphere of today's concert halls is superficial at best, based on something that is not really essential to music...
...watched neck deep as their town disappeared. An elderly man and his wife ran for their lives as the river of flame roared toward their house; the fire changed its course, and their bodies were found 100 yards from their untouched home. When the flames neared a touring circus, keepers freed the elephants so that they could escape to the bush. The elephants were more sensible: they went to a water trough and doused themselves, then returned to their vans. The bush caught fire, but the vans pulled out just in time...
...them, attempting to find salvation in a sugar cube, make something called "psychedelic cinema." Their intention is to reproduce on the screen what they see while they are in the acid bag. Even farther out is something called "expanded cinema" or "mixed-media environments," a sort of avant-garde circus in which movies, theater, recorded music, kinetic sculpture and light paintings are fused into a single engulfing experience...
Richard Lindner's art comes on with the blaring oompah of a brass band. His subject is people-notably women. They are overripe nymphets whose hearts belong to Dada. Emblazoned in garish circus colors, more powerful than comic-book Supermen, his colossal caricatures loom like contemporary Baals...
...secondary school teachers. When a summer or winter vacation comes, the problem that worries the professors most is how to make their living during the long, long holiday. Many of them are forced to change their calling to become waiters, to toil as farm hands or to act as circus clowns. Any work is better than teaching; naturally they have no heart for teaching. So strange are the educational circles in the United States! University students are being brought up only to become waste products, and the teachers, one after another, are switching themselves over to other occupations. American educational...