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Today's Honest Carnie Sir / Re your article on our recent studies of the American carnival [May 28]: a major finding of our researches has been that the carnival world is rapidly changing and that crooked games and illegal activities are becoming quite rare. Like the circus before it...
PORTLAND, ORE.: Because this city (pop. 360,000) has had no taint of local political scandal in 15 years, Watergate is all the harder for Portlanders to comprehend. By and large, they trust their officeholders. Even the people who are ready to believe the worst about Watergate commonly add a...
With their loud and gaudy midways, their sad freak shows and crooked games, America's traveling carnivals have spawned a rich catalogue of literature. Now, following a familiar chronology, behavioral scientists have moved in to analyze what journalists and other lay observers have long sensed. Carnivals, say the sociologists...
Sensuality. So popular has reggae become that a movie, The Harder They Come, was made this year about a fictional reggae composer. It is the story of a naive country musician-played by Jamaican Jimmy Cliff-who goes to Kingston, records his song, and is ripped off by the crooked...
I get the feeling that the fuming Pauline Kael is touched at bottom by nostalgia--she still doesn't sound jaded. I picture a middle to late-middle-aged lady with a rather racy past behind her--first a movie pioneer, then a movie regular, now settling into her movie...