Word: circus
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Last week in New York, every conversation came back to Rudy. The personal trumped the political. The New Rudy isn't going to chase any votes this year, but he will create an ongoing political spectacle that turns New York into a two-ring circus: Hillary and Rick going for the Senate in one ring, Rudy going for redemption in the next. But first, Giuliani needs to get past the cancer. The mayor still has not chosen a treatment, and the decision is clearly agonizing for him. Surgery to remove the prostate gland offers the best chance of eliminating...
Because it includes only work Mark has done in the U.S., the Philadelphia show, which was organized by Michael E. Hoffman and Melissa Harris of the Aperture Foundation, leaves out the prostitutes and circus performers that she has photographed in India and her bloodcurdling pictures of junkies shooting up in London. But two long sections are given over to a couple of Mark's best-known projects. One is a series of portraits of the Damms, a California family she first came upon in 1987 when they were homeless and living mostly out of their car. Seven years later...
...budgets. For now, documentary spectacles still splatter the big wall. The Jordan movie--a star chat interspersed with clips from his final NBA playoff drive--has an adoring tone and the familiar slo-mo, wide-angle baskebatics. For higher highs and cooler thrills, go Cirque. The Montreal-based art circus has finally made a film that captures the joy and awe of shows like Quidam, Mystere and O by placing Cirque du Soleil's most enthralling acts in natural settings: a bungee ballet in a forest; a living-statue duet in a Renaissance pool; the graceful intricacy of swimmers locking...
...Gonzalez case is complicated, but I can find only one person to root for: Elian. All others involved should be ashamed of themselves--Castro for creating a country that a woman would risk her life to leave; Elian's relatives for parading the poor child around in a media circus; Attorney General Janet Reno for ordering armed commandos to drag the frightened child out into the early-morning darkness. With all the resources available to our government, I cannot believe there were no other solutions. HOLLY ROBINSON Norwalk, Conn...
...last time. Over the decades, marches on Washington degenerated, it seemed, into merely coercive shows of force, of political plumage display. Sometimes, of course - especially in the vast antiwar outpourings of the late '60s - they possessed anarchic energy. And they sometimes accomplished their purposes. But the art form (happening, circus, pep rally, Chautauqua, media spectacle, political threat) has devolved into special-interest pleading. In addition, there is the risk that good causes may be contaminated or embarrassed, as by appalling jokes during the recent gay and lesbian march on Washington, cracks that made Minister Farrakhan's interminable parsing...