Word: rings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Apple Circus is different: it has only one ring, two clowns, 14 acrobats and aerialists, one horse, one pony, one elephant - and no dogs or lions at all. What it does have is enthusiasm, charm and the friendliness of the small scale. "This is the maximum size I ever want to have," insists Director Paul Binder. "If we were larger, we would lose our intimacy and immediacy." Now completing a four-week run at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, the Big Apple Circus has something else most of its competitors, which play in huge arenas like Madison Square Garden...
...Tarra the elephant plays a harmonica, hits a tambourine and dances atop a stool on two front feet; the Bertinis do figure eights and other intricate maneuvers on unicycles; and the two clowns turn out to be superb jugglers. One of the advantages of a small space-the single ring is only 42 ft. in diameter-is that the audience can become involved. At each show one of the clowns plucks children from their seats to lead the band. Though few in the audience may suspect it, that clown is also the founder and director of the company, Binder himself...
...join the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Hungry to be in front of an audience at last, Binder accepted; eventually the two traveled to Europe, where they performed their juggling act on Paris street corners, then joined the Nouveau Cirque de Paris. "That was my introduction to the one-ring circus," says Binder, "and I was amazed by the beauty of it. I made up my mind then that I wanted to set one up in New York...
Wagner: The Ring (Philips, 16 LPs). Conductor Pierre Boulez dominates this incisive live performance at Bayreuth...
...courageous one. Jaruzelski's assurance that in modern times troubles like those in Poland need not lead to war has a ring of unintended irony in the wake of his decision two weeks ago to proclaim martial law-"a state of war," as it is called in the Polish constitution. Jaruzelski got his thankless, and perhaps hopeless, job heading the party because he was, and still is, Defense Minister and chief of the armed forces. The absurd logic of his appointment is now complete: he has threatened war against his own people...