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Alison, to her surprise, doesn't have much public support from blacks. "I don't have a problem with the way it is," says Tarra Craigen, a classmate. "I respect and appreciate what this girl is doing," says Gemenie Bowdre, a former school-board member who never challenged the elections. "But you have to look at reality." And reality, according to Bowdre, is that roughly 75% of the students are white and that blacks would not stand a chance of being elected without the policy. It was established in 1970, when the local all-black school and all-white school...
Most of the acts are of a homier nature, however; their aim is to charm rather than amaze. 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...
...Webster's New International Dictionary: "tarradiddle-to tell, or impose on by telling, tarra-diddles...
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