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After dropping out of high school at 17, Randi joined a traveling carnival. On tour, he wore a turban and a beard, was billed as Prince Ibis, did a mind- reading act and supervised a "ten-in-one," carny talk for ten attractions under one tent. Among the features, Randi recalls, were Kong Lee, the electric boy, and the 10-ft. indigo snake ("It was only six feet, but who counts...
Harvard rents most of these tents from local suppliers, frustrating the hosts of weddings and bar mitzvahs for miles around. The school owns only the main white canopy covering the speaker's platform in Tercentenary Theater. The 175-foot tent was designed specially for its location in preparation for Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration, Dwyer says...
...brash Canadian named Guy Laliberte says he hates the circus and why a colleague, Denis Lacombe, thinks clowns are boring. What makes their opinions worthwhile is that Laliberte is the founder of the Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil (Circus of the Sun), which hoists its 1,756-seat tent in New York City this week as part of a North American tour that has made it something of a cult attraction. And Lacombe is his star clown, who does a socko act conducting the 1812 Overture in ski boots while strapped to a trampoline -- a feat that must be seen...
Call it circus theater. As the show begins, a dozen drably dressed country people, simple villagers caricatured with half-masks, wander into the tent's single ring. They look timidly at the ropes and rigging, the aerialists' gear. . What if . . . Whoosh! Colored smoke floods into the ring; lights swirl. A mysterious sprite materializes from vapor: the beautiful and alarming Queen of the Night (Angela Laurier) is here, not just to call the circus into being but to transform the peasants themselves into clowns and acrobats. Instantly a fat old uncle (Michel Barette) is undressed, then recostumed as -- Help! -- the show...
December 4, 1987: The Harvard men's hockey team travels to the circus tent know as Lynah Rink in Ithaca, N.Y. Fish are hurled on the ice. So is an object which, according to The Crimson, would "repulse many a nun." Oh, yes, a little hockey is played, too. Harvard triumphs...