Word: circusing
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Parable is basically an art film that got religion. All in pantomime, it opens with a gaudy circus parade moving through a wooded countryside. "Into this great Circus of Life," intones a narrator, "came a man who dared to be different." Bringing up the rear is a figure, all white-on-white from flowing robes to chalky Marcel Marceau makeup. He is riding on a donkey...
...barker. The cries of his death agony shatter the sound track. In a silence that follows, three empty harnesses dangle from their ropes, and the remorseful Magnus goes to put white makeup on his face. In the final scene an all-white figure is riding the donkey as the circus moves on. Is it the clown-or the puppeteer-or Everyman-or Christ...
...SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). A full hour of the famed Moscow State Circus, taped in Minneapolis...
...Some of you think you've come to a circus to watch a dancing bear," said the moderator cynically. Perhaps some had, but Malcolm X was no dancing bear, no exotic specimen of a Near-Eastern religion, no man to be clinically observed. Flanked by three docile bodyguards Malcolm baffled his Leverett House audience with an oddly-paced blend of demagoguery and rationality, haughtiness and humor, sham history and acute analysis, utopian policies and realpolitik...
...home!" at people in his way. Ingrid Bergman is every inch an actress as she sits in a makeup chair and tells the man with the eye shadow how some magazine is obviously out to sink a knife into actresses one and all. Duke Wayne, in Spain with the Circus World, fluffs a line as if he were breaking a thick stick over his knee. Delicious Claudia Cardinale, practicing her own lines near by, struggles hard not to say belly when she means bully...