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Last week, just as sure as daffodils, the circus opened in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. It was Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's 92nd spring. The ringmaster's "Children of all ages . . ." invocation was the same, but it was obvious that things had changed...
Gone is the sawdust; rubber matting is much easier to put down and neater to take up in the auditoriums where the tentless circus now plays. The freaks are still there in the sideshow, but it is considered discriminatory to call them by that name any longer, and the placards that identify them are like something out of a natural history museum. Gone is the little house that caught on fire; gone are the Living Statues; gone is the calliope; gone is Emmett Kelly, Gargantua, and Jo Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy. But gone, most of all, is the innocent...
...circus is still a brave show...
After a wait of nearly a year, Cuba's Communist regime put on trial the 1,179 hapless exiles captured in last April's abortive Bay of Pigs invasion. In sharp contrast to the televised circus of the men's initial interrogation, the trial was held in secret behind the walls of Havana's Príncipe prison. The regime posted no formal charges, announced merely that a five-man military tribunal would act as both judge and jury. No friends or relatives of the men were allowed in to see what went on. Only Cuban...
...down to bone and sinew. The surfaces are rough, and the resultant ripple adds to the sense of movement. There is nothing slavishly naturalistic about Gross; he distorts freely for the sake of balance and design. "I used to say that if they tried, not one of my little circus girls could get up and walk away-people aren't built that way. But if you get away from straight naturalistic forms, it sometimes makes things more interesting." Gross is refreshingly unafraid of repeating himself: "I love doing these acrobats. I'd like to make thousands-they...