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Turn again, turn again, turn once again; the freaks of the cosmic circus...
...Gascar feels no need to transmogrify his humans into animals: World War II and its aftermath, the setting for most of the stories, has already reduced both species to a state of competitive coexistence. One story, The Animals, openly pits a band of starving Russian prisoners against a German circus menagerie, uprooted from its East Prussian winter quarters by a Russian offensive. Each morning the Russians line up at the barn door of their makeshift prison to watch the animal keeper toss scraps of meat to the ravenous lions, then slink back to their own mess tins of watery soup...
...among their virtues. After Miss Lucy arrived, Tuscalcosa became an arena in which for almost a week reporters beat the bushes for stories, and television cameramen vied with each other for the most sensational shot of the day. One picture sold to a syndicate for $1,500. In this circus-like atmosphere, students were more than willing to perform, while even faculty members rarely hid from the bright lights of national publicity...
Like every circus worthy of the name, Trapeze offers plenty of exciting sideshows, and the favorite distraction is sure to be Gina Lollobrigida, who keeps drifting across the screen in pretty, scant costumes. Gina is a lowly trampolinist who wants to fly high, and she keeps trying to climb the rigging with the "catcher" (Lancaster) in the aerial act, but Burt will not give her a tumble. He does all his catching on the high bar with Tony Curtis, and he refuses to let a woman come between them. But Gina keeps pitching those curves, and pretty soon both Burt...
...Circus is a simple, romantic ballet, set to some suitable music by France's Jacques Ibert, laid in a village square of placardized baroque, and dressed in costumes that suggest the saltimbanques of Picasso. It is pretty and sweet, but not too sweet. As the play begins, Pierrot (Kelly) appears in his baggy white costume to open the program of a teatro circo, an Italian traveling circus. With the stilted gestures of mimetic tradition, he tells of his hopeless love for the leading lady of the troupe (Sombert), hopeless because she loves the daring aerialist (Youskevitch...