Word: circusing
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...working. Last night's debate was punctuated by laughter which was more often than not directed at (or with?) him. Benjamin M. Wikler '03did get one laugh, but besides that, Dreyfus is the only show in town. Many students already see the council as a three-ring circus. Presuming Dreyfus doesn't go normal on us, Holworthy basement might become home to a new ringmaster...
...Orlando and "Alegria" at the new Biloxi resort in Mississippi. I've seen the first three and "Mystere" is definitely my favorite--but that, perhaps, is because it was the first one I saw. Performed with live music (a combination of techno and opera), each show is an apocalyptic circus of startling imagination. Everything is designed to be an illusion--to take you in one direction and then make you refigure (the best example I can think of in "O" has a clown drifting on a raft in an ocean; a shark fin begins to swim around...
...theme of the Cirque du Soleil experience is always the same: only from periods of intense chaos do we ever get the brief revelation of genius. Between each acrobatic or Herculean feat of circus theatrics (these beat anything, anything you'll ever see in Barnum and Bailey--in "Mystere," there's an entire sequence of bungee jumping acrobats costumed as birds), you're treated to a two or three minute interlude of dazzling fantasy: a parade of stilted clowns dressed as elephants, a giant inflated snail floating across the stage, a five-foot baby bouncing a giant ball around...
...Trader Joe's on Memorial Drive and Bread and Circus Whole Foods Market in Central Square are two local stores dedicated to natural substances and foods. Natural junkies can purchase vitamins and meal supplements, as well as natural hair and body care products, essential oils and bath salts...
...Although the store has yet to see a big rise in sales of nutritional supplements, sales of body care and aromatherapeutic products have sky-rocketed in recent years, according to Michael D. Strohl, an employee at Bread and Circus...