Word: circusing
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...Fitzpatrick said. It’s been a busy few weeks for the 2004 Ivy Player of the Year, who turned 23 on Thanksgiving and last week became engaged to his college girlfriend, former Crimson women’s soccer captain Liza Barber ’05. The circus may continue if he gets the start for the Rams this Sunday against the Washington Redskins. Martin’s status post-concussion remains uncertain, though interim Rams coach Joe Vitt has not confirmed his starter. “It’s still...
...Box” is the segment that is both most affecting and hardest to describe. The story, in its bare outline, is that a novelist accidentally killed her twin sister in a horrific way when they were young circus performers. She is plagued by recurring dreams in which she is buried alive in the same small box in which her sister died. Elements of her dream spill over into her life, and her sister starts appearing to her—or is just a manifestation of a guilty conscience...
...imagery throughout is so dreamlike and beautiful, if creepy (those with a phobia of overly-realistic dolls and circus performers are hereby warned), and the structure loops back on itself so many times, that it is impossible to tell what is a dream and what, if anything, is real. All the characters are impassive until they are physically attacked, making them impossible to read, which heightens the sense of uncertainty. There are no jump-in-your-seat moments, but the overall effect is profoundly unsettling...
...Contender has demanded half the proceeds—or profits, as the case may be—that the group amasses while yachting with the zebras. As of Wednesday evening, spirits were sagging on Team Zebra’s online weblog. “Feld Entertainment, owners of the circus, don’t seem interested in our challenge,” team co-leader Neeraj “Richie” Banerji ’06 wrote. “Southwicks Zoo didn’t answer. Tufts Animal Hospital is out of zebra. I called the Rhode Island...
...person, Strathairn has plenty to say about the cable-based infotainment circus that has succeeded Murrow’s straight-forward, hard-hitting network news broadcasts. “If Murrow was this crystal ball, you just dropped it and it’s shattered,” he says. “There are pieces of it everywhere, but they pick up a different light…The press has just been spun and pressed and squeezed and embedded...