Word: circus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hook. The next stop would be his last chance to walk across the platform and jump the first train home. "Save yourself," the voice said, reminding him yet again that the Wednesday crowd at the Apollo was the meanest, most capricious mob since the days of Nero's circus and the Christian martyrs. Arthur refused to listen, finding within his 22-year-old heart a last, untapped reservoir of ambition to carry him out into the whirl of 125th Street...
MORE than 1600 people crowded into the Zion Baptist Church a Sunday or two ago to hear a politician and smell the same snake-oil their great-grandfathers did back when politics was a circus--not a situation comedy...
...swiping one another's ball clubs. Just this spring the Cincinnati Reds have moved from Tampa to Plant City, the New York Mets from St. Petersburg to Port St. Lucie and the Kansas City Royals from Fort Myers to an amusement park in Haines City once known as Circus World and now identified as Boardwalk & Baseball...
...next year's Final Four featured the Motown sound of the Hrkae circus of North Dakota. I remember the Hobey Baker Award winner controlling the play as precisely as Magic Johnson runs a Laker fast break...
...thru" cocaine marts, the scene of violent competition. Crack dealers, some as young as 13, are making up to $2,000 a day. Between sales, they smoke "fry daddies" (crack-laced cigarettes), drink "swamp juice" (gin and fruit punch) and then lash out at the buses. "It's a circus atmosphere out on those street corners," says Police Sergeant Roger Liljedahl. "They're getting high on this incredible stimulant and feeding off each other...