Word: circusing
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...certainly didn’t matter that Coyne’s technical skills were unremarkable. What was most important was his pure joy for performance. If he wasn’t ringleader, tossing confetti, Coyne was a little boy lost in the grandeur of the circus. During a life-affirming rendition of “Do You Realize??” he pranced around the stage to the sounds of shimmering organs, shaking exuberantly as he sang and leaving the crowd shaking...
...precious objects. But only 10 years later, a new chemical extraction process made aluminum more easily obtainable, and from then on its lightness and durability was put to some surprising uses - such as an aluminum violin from the 1930s and the statue of Eros in London's Piccadilly Circus, the world's first aluminum public sculpture. It also became the material of choice for products from coffee pots to vacuum cleaners. But aluminum seems to find its most frequent expression as seating. There's an eclectic range of chairs in the Design Museum show, including Mies van der Rohe...
James said the major strategy in McDonald’s ads is coming up with advertising partnerships that appeal to people’s personal interests—like ad campaigns with the Boston Globe, Disney On Ice and the circus...
...thought about the military as a future career was during the college application process—possibly considering options like West Point, Annapolis or a Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarship. Or, perhaps like me, at 18 the thought of joining the military seemed about as likely as joining the circus. If I had been told during my first year at Harvard that soon after graduation I would be getting whipped into shape by a Marine Drill Instructor at the Navy’s Officer Candidate School, I would have responded that the draft must have been reinstated...
...Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Waking Up. It depicts a Venus-like Gala reclining nude above some rocks. Above her, two cinematic tigers leap out of a goldfish's mouth - and seemingly out of the canvas. It is so strikingly circus-like it seems almost to make sense...