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...honest, there's nothing too radical here. As Page admits, his aim was to "do everything - Aboriginal content, a bit for the conservatives, a bit for the crazies, a bit of a circus. A universal smorgasbord." That he's delivered. By the end of the first week, there were the usual hits (The Overcoat) and misses (Night Letters). The former, a piece of bravura theater-making from Canada, mixes Buster Keaton with Gogol and - after seven years on the festival circuit - purrs like a Rolls-Royce. Letters, the State Theatre Company of South Australia's new four-hour adaptation...
Similarly, as a result of PETA’s campaign against circuses’ routine cruelty to animals—elephants and tigers simply will not perform ridiculous tricks without being “broken”—school boards are banning circus promotions in schools, officials are investigating and charging circuses for cruelty to animals and some municipalities have banned animal acts altogether. PETA has convinced more than 550 companies to stop testing their products on animals, and the organization also polices experimenters’ cruel and unnecessary mutilation of animals by investigating laboratories and scrutinizing proposed...
...commercial culture's ability to narcotize children with an endless stream of sex and violence? But those deeper arguments usually get as much attention as the size of the budget deficit. In fact, the Culture War isn't really a war; it's more a public entertainment, a Culture Circus. Wars require combatants. The general public is not up in arms but plastered in armchairs, occasionally roused to flaccid pique by a handful of show-biz gladiators--Rosie O'Donnell, Rush Limbaugh, Al Franken, Jerry Falwell--who fight carefully selected papier-mache lions...
...experience,” Soriano says. “You grow up watching the Super Bowl but never expect to be part of it. You turn on the news and there’s all these celebrity sightings, celebrities throwing parties, the media. It’s a real circus...
...remains of a bus destroyed by a suicide bomber out front. In response, pro-Palestinian activists shouted, "Stop the occupation now!" As the debate raged, many people wondered whether the ICJ should be hearing the case at all. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon snubbed the hearing as an "international circus," and the U.S. boycotted it as well. Also absent were representatives from the E.U. - and that surprised some Israelis, who have long accused Europe of anti-Israel bias. (Those feelings were fueled in part by a November Eurobarometer survey in which 59% of Europeans polled said the Jewish state "presents...