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...social scientist." Three of the contributors have ties to the carnival or circus worlds: Sociologist Marcello Truzzi of New College in Sarasota, Fla., whose father was the juggler Massimiliano Truzzi; Sociologist Patrick Easto of Eastern Michigan University, whose mother was a carnival stripper; and Social Psychologist Theodore Dembroski of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, who was born into a carnival family and takes a job as a carnival worker, or "carnie," every summer...
...Dembroski describes a still more colorful character, the "alibi agent," a concessionaire who specializes in usually rigged games called alibis. That name comes from the agent's ready explanation for the mark's inevitable failures. "You threw that one too high," he may say, thus persuading the mark that he can easily do better if he keeps playing. (One example of an alibi is the six-cat, in which a mark tries to knock a row of canvas cats off a shelf with a baseball-but fails because a mechanical device keeps the cats in place.) According...
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