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...largest wild animal is made of chairs. The entire troupe, including costumes and apparatus, could fit into a clown car with room left over for a family of four. This is far too modest to be the greatest show on earth. How about something simpler: a one-ring wonder. The sweetest little circus this side of Barnum...
...Avignon, when it featured 30 performers and a regulation menagerie. In the intervening years, the focus has become more precise, so that now the whole business can quite handily be contained on a bare stage, within the confines of the 23-ft. mat that serves as its sole ring...
Today George Bush worries less about whether the U.S.S.R. will start World War III than whether it will slide into a civil war. Even the word superpower now has an odd ring when applied to the demoralized, disintegrating state that Mikhail Gorbachev leads. Bush is the first American President to spend most of his term more concerned about the Soviet Union's weaknesses than its strengths...
...Soon it obscured all but a thin lower crescent that gleamed against the darkening sky like the Cheshire Cat's smile. Next the corners of the smile vanished, leaving a single dazzling gem of brilliance at the bottom of a circle of light -- the so-called diamond-ring effect. At 7:28, the solitaire blinked out. And, as if the hand of God had thrown a switch, day turned to night...
...steel-gray light. "Mind blowing," said Edward Kuba, University of Hawaii regent. "Wonderful, wonderful," pronounced Sony chairman Akio Morita, one of several VIPs present, as he gazed through a new video camera from his company. Then, with stunning suddenness, the four minutes of totality ended, another diamond ring appeared, and the shadow of the moon could be seen fleeing across the Pacific toward Baja California...