Word: circusing
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...panelists peppered the discussion with anecdotes about sitting next to La Toya Jackson at the Michael Jackson trial and experiencing the circus of mass media that descended on Eagle, Colo. during the Kobe Bryant scandal...
...break free from the cocoon of her stereotype and emerge from the shadow of her husband's brilliance. The biggest decisions about Hillary Clinton have yet to be made, and they are largely out of her control. Do people really want a woman President? Do they want the Clinton circus back in town? Do they want to keep trading the presidency between these two weird families? "Who knows?" said Karl Rhomberg, a former Scott County Democratic chairman, after watching Clinton perform in Davenport, Iowa. He pointed out that four years ago, in November, Howard Dean was inevitable, and John Kerry...
...brick wall repeatedly). In between possessions he retreats to the sideline for shots of Vicodin, Lidocaine, and encouragement to do it all over again. “Off-season” is a myth. “Injured reserve” is for cowards. The athletes contribute to the circus of blue-collar combat 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. But the consequences of an NFL career are extreme and often unknown to the fans: the average veteran at any position dies before he turns 55, the age at which he can finally begin to draw full pension...
...changed since Madeleine vanished last May. Back then, parents worldwide could identify with them. But three months into the unsuccessful investigation, as the McCanns kept up their high-profile media blitz, what started as a distraught couple's simple pleas to find their child morphed into a macabre media circus. Public perception was further changed when they became suspects...
...It’s not just a race. You just row down the river, and there are so many people on every bridge, on the river banks, just shouting at you, there are bands playing at Harvard…It’s like rowing through a circus.” —Staff writer Courtney D. Skinner can be reached at cskinner@fas.harvard.edu...