Word: circusing
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...Camille is vaguely dissatisfied with Martin, and it only takes the death of her dog to provoke an emotional crisis. When, finally, Camille breaks down in a laudromat, Petra (Rachel Crawford), an eccentric and beautiful circus performer, happens to be there. Her comforting touch is highlighted by the camera in a way that promises she will be back, and she arranges a mix-up with their clothes so that they will be forced to meet again...
...with the sight, unexpected in politics, of a sane man being true to himself--unaffectedly displaying an integrity that has a faraway feel, like Frank Capra movies from the '30s. In the '90s politics and entertainment have completed a merger through media--an unwholesome synthesis that produces a whole circus of falsifications and unrealities, a kind of drug dream. The drug is power, that stimulant and hallucinogen. Even with the highest office in the world apparently available to him ("The first black ."), Powell remained comfortably within himself. It was there for the taking, and Powell did the mysteriously beautiful thing...
...WHEN A CIRCUS GOES AWRY, IT IS USUALly the fault of the ringmaster. Judge Ito was not able to keep the sideshows under control, and as a result the knife thrower got away with murder. This was not justice; this was a travesty. MARE-LIIS BALLES , Agincourt, Ontario...
...Buick Circus Hour was an odd combination of drama and variety show, featuring an actual circus troupe...
...parents (this was before Medicare even existed, let alone needed to be "fixed"). If a Strike It Rich contestant came up empty-handed, all was not lost: the host would urge viewers to call in on the "Heart Line" and pledge money and/or medical equipment. Despite this innovative, Roman circus-like approach to charity, the New York City-based show sparked a furor when local social-service agencies complained that they were being overwhelmed by indigent would-be contestants who had been showing up in Manhattan from all over the nation with no means of returning home...