Word: circusing
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...going to be a circus, but it is fun when the circus comes to town," says Lalas, who seems to love needling the Beckham-obsessed English press. In recent weeks he has called the globally watched English Premier League an "inferior product" because only a handful of big-money teams have a realistic chance of winning its championship. Beckham, former England captain whose virtuoso free kicks made him a national hero (and spawned the movie title Bend It Like Beckham) is also one of the country's most obsessively followed celebrities. His book, My Side, was the fastest-selling autobiography...
...that's changing, with the festival's launch leading one critic in The Observer to christen Manchester, "the beating heart of cultural Britain." Typical of the festival's eclectic offerings was last week's opening salvo entitled "Monkey: Journey to the West," a kind of circus-opera extravaganza, with a set designed by the pop group Gorillaz. Based upon a 16th century Chinese legend of a monk and a wondering monkey, it featured a riveting score by Damon Albarn, of Blur fame, plus a troupe of Chinese acrobats and martial artists...
...famous." He gambled on a full-page ad in the New York Times, changed the name of the store to Wine Library and taught himself enough about wine to impress the resulting flood of customers. "I was 19, but I looked like I was 11. It became a circus act because people wanted to hear me talk about Burgundy...
...buildings. That a large investor has come to the neighborhood is a vindication of the city's strategy to spark private interest by plowing municipal money into improvements such as a minor-league baseball stadium. Coney Island fixture Dick Zigun, who has brought back old traditions like the circus sideshow and invented new ones like the Mermaid Parade, reflects the population's pragmatism: "We went far on spirit alone, but there's only so much you can do without multimillion-dollar investment...
...your nightdress”). The hardness of the opening songs is echoed in the later songs, but the storm never rages as intensely again. The sound becomes a little rougher in “Do Me a Favor” and “This House is a Circus,” which both crescendo and end with wailing guitars. The latter of those two songs is a lyrical masterpiece about the quixotic search for complete satisfaction in life: “And we’re forever unfulfilled / Can’t think why / Like a search for murder...