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...elephant is a skilled performer as well, and this is the real attraction. Some claim that a circus is incomplete without clowns and elephants. I only partially agree. I've never liked clowns. I'm repelled by their enforced hilarity and mask of painted smiles. I don't trust a person who is always happy. I wonder what lurks under the facade. An elephant, on the other hand, not only never forgets; it never smiles...
...Peninsula posted raciallyoffensive flyers advertising a symposium on sexualliberation and Black families [see relatedstory]. BSA said the College permits themagazine to "mask racism under the guise andprotection of free speech...
Because the College lacks a hate speech policy,Peninsula is able to mask its racism underFirst Amendment rights, she said. "We do notbelieve that racist hate speech directed againstBlack students has merited equal consideration inmatters of this kind...
...most clearly indicates the confusion that the program notes try to mask as a sophisticated eclecticism. The deconstructionist hodgepodge of arched and beams is neither especially effective nor lovely to look at. Furthermore, the disquietingly oblique references to "the architecture of I.M. Pei, the collections at the Louvre, two thousand years of Western religious tradition, Ptolomy's [sic] astrological maps, the sculpture of Noguchi..." disperse the attention and cannot make up for the producers' failure to face the opera and its performance tradition, making an informed (never mind inspired) reading...
...suspect, who wore a ski mask, approached the employee and told her to fill up his red bag with cash, according to police...