Word: circusing
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...year. Born in Lebanon and a tumbler from the age of three, the improbable Hamid was nine years old when, in Marseille, he met the first two Americans he had ever seen: Annie Oak ley and William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody. Hamid joined Cody's traveling circus, shined the great man's boots, kept his highballs full of ice, worshiped him, and has been a lifelong abstainer because he watched Buffalo Bill dissolve in booze...
...South Shore Music Circus(off Route 3A--Ev 3-1400) will produce The Pleasure of His Company,with Faye Emerson and Reginland Gardiner (opening June 26); The West Side Story (July 3); The Flower Drum Song (July 17); and Take Me Along (July...
...Chinese Premier Chou En-lai himself came to Ulan Bator and signed a treaty providing for $50 million in long-term loans to build a cotton mill, a sheet-glass factory, a 10,000-ton steel mill, an irrigation system, a circus, and a project for 240,000 square meters of apartment housing for Ulan Bator...
...what is baffling is not the sex but the snake oil it is cooked in. Cancer is not pornography in the usual sad style of that genre; it lacks the glum and oleaginous manner, the pseudoanthropological pedantry. Miller sets up obscene tableaux vivants but moves among them like a circus clown with a bladder full of hot air. With the real pornographer, the sex circus is too solemn for comic treatment. Miller's tone at times suggests that a committee of longshoremen has taken over the management of a bal-musette. The words for the climaxes of love...
...Pastor Wyrick seems to share the old circus maxim that "the first thing to do is get 'em in the tent," he makes no apologies. He believes that only the people who are in the church can hear the sermon. "I feel that I'm doing God's work," he said last week, "but just because it's God's work I don't have to be on a mountaintop. You get the respect you deserve, and you don't get any more for sitting on a pedestal...