Word: circusing
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...exploration. The feeling, finally, is that his piano work was nothing more than a dance through a field of potential notes, with stops at notes chosen randomly in an unconscious pattern. He deals in dialogues as well. He and Bill Connors matched phrases, tones, intensities, even notes throughout "Space Circus." He can even approach the night club intimacy of an Ahmad Jamal...
...would anyone want to turn the trial into a circus? We certainly don't! Russell and Dennis could spend the rest of their lives in jail...
Getting off the plane, Carol Means was tired and tense. She didn't want to talk about her husband's trial. But when I told her I hoped that extensive publicity wouldn't turn the trial into a circus, she reacted sharply...
...Carol Means hoped, the trial has not been turned into a circus, but has been low-key and businesslike thus far, unlike the occupation, which became a full-blown "media event...
...paper's civic pride can occasionally be cloying. It goes into annual paroxysms of praise over such events as the state fair and the Fourth of July circus wagon parade (sample lead: "The parade wasn't long and the route was short, but the enthusiasm . . . ). Although it does send reporters and editorial writers on international fact-finding tours, the paper's thrust is unabashedly local...