Word: circus
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...himself when the battle is at its hottest, when losses are mounting and the enemy is preparing for the kill: he sits upright with his gold-framed reading glasses halfway down his nose, a pen and document in hand, while his paralegal, only a few feet away, performs a circus act involving two cell phones, a briefcase and an importunate reporter. Boies' pen makes sharply slanting scratches on a critical legal brief--just one stone in a brutal, driving hail of critical briefs--that must be filed immediately on behalf of Vice President Al Gore. Boies' celebrated Lands' End suit...
...Yikes.) Why, then, did they have to turn it into such a sketchy affair? First, Douglas secured an exclusive $1.4 million deal with OK! Magazine to publish the official wedding photos, knowing full well that every other tabloid would run unauthorized pictures anyway. "I wanted to avoid a media circus," he insisted, but with hundreds of paparazzi barricaded outside the Plaza, it looked awfully like plain greed. Moreover, instead of accepting gifts, the couple requested "donations" into their four-month old son's trust fund. Well, they didn't call it a trust -they used the euphemism, "giving fund...
...flight. Normally, this would be plenty of time. I enter the terminal through the main entrance and find myself redirected to a large white tent. To my dismay, Delta is not hosting a flea market for old blankets, pillows, and peanuts or offering a circus show with tigers jumping through rings of fire for my pre-flight entertainment. I have to stand in line under this white tent just to get inside of the terminal--not a good omen for the voyage...
...investor psychology, it has turned circus-freak ugly. Not a serious buyer in sight. Cash is piling up in money funds, which stand at a record $1.8 trillion. Cash at stock mutual funds equals 5.3% of assets, up from 4% in March. Yet to bulls, these stockpiles represent buying power ready to push prices higher. "I've never seen so many people on Wall Street talking to so many other people on Wall Street trying to figure out what's happening," confesses John Manley, a market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney...
Rogow, a scholarly, bow-tied law professor who has argued 11 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, said the word circus wasn't big enough to describe the show. At one point attorney Alan Dershowitz, the Zelig of American law, and another lawyer attended a hearing with Rogow, and the New York Times observed: "In a race that was not particularly close, both men beat the lead defense lawyer, Bruce S. Rogow, to the television cameras outside the courthouse...