Word: circusing
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...twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor: "Loving you,/ Loving you,/ Could be such heavenly bliss..." Joan Crawford, who became an expert at playing distraught ladies, offered this line at age 16: "Where are you?/ My heart cries out in agony..." At eleven, Bob Hope began, "I dreamed I was a circus clown./ I wore a funny suit." In his dream, Hope was caught by a lion. When the boy pleaded for mercy, the beast responded: "I'll let you free to do a show,/ And come again another...
...role of the kook in American drama is rather like that of the circus freak. He or she represents nature gone awry, a creature of bizarre habits, obsessive appetites, crazy compulsions. The kook has no claim on our common humanity unless he can be made endearing in some way as, for example, Elwood P. Dowd was through his affection for his invisible companion, the 6-ft. rabbit, Harvey...
ORSON WELLES II. Big Score, 5:30, 8:45. At the Circus, 4, 7:05, 10:15. Fri.-Sat., midnight madness, with Reader Madness and shorts...
...Lotte Goslar's New York-based Pantomime Circus demonstrates a rare and precious conceit: dance can be funny as well as fashionable. One of the best of American mimes, Goslar is a dumpling of a woman with a turned-up nose and a turned-down figure that often resembles a lightly squeezed tube of toothpaste. Gnome is where her heart is, especially when spoofing flowers, inch-worms and swishy ballet masters, or imitating a katydid rubbing its legs (Splendor in the Grass). When four of her dancers somehow managed to portray a cowardly lion encountering an equally cowardly clown...
...what the backgrounder describes as the "McGovern Crowd," who sound like a gang of ultraviolence freaks out of A Clockwork Orange. The backgrounder notes that it was the "McGovern Crowd" who "humiliated the party leaders at Miami Beach and rubbed their noses in the sawdust of that political circus;" and who "boasted, with adolescent arrogance, that they were the 'new politics...