In a twist, Thursday's win didn't look like the superstar circus the team usually looks like: Sharpshooter Mike Miller, a role player with a bad back, made seven 3-pointers to score 23.
The weirdest sub-drama of this year's combine is easily the circus surrounding the Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, who is still recovering after a bizarre saga in which it was revealed his deceased girlfriend was an elaborate hoax.
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Barnum retired from his American Museum in New York and went on the road, in the 1880s, did the circus take the form we know: that mixture of short acts, animals, skills such as juggling and tumbling, and, most important, the gigantification of everything.
The codename was Mr Mills' Circus because the senior MI5 officer in charge was CB Mills, whose family ran the Cyril Bertram Mills Circus.
Beyond that, continue to enjoy the media circus around the company.
Clowns from the Big Apple Circus conducted the training, called Clown U. Lessons for the aspiring clowns included parade etiquette (when faced with a crying child, walk away).
And her younger brothers Keaton, 18, and Kellin, 16, are also training for the circus. (They performed with their older sister as the "Circus Siblings" in a Circus Harmony extravaganza.) Even so, getting shot out of a cannon is something you might wish on somebody else's kid.
Everyone has their eyes on the three-ring circus of the Republican field of candidates.
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And I witnessed the highly staged media circus outside the Edward R.
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From his days obsessed with Metallica, to playing in a mambo band called Latin Pimps in college, to actually running away with the circus to play the guitar, Robert Gomez has had a colorful musical history.
Roberts is a director at the London-based property and planning consultancy Turnberry Consulting, and in his latest book, Racecourse Architecture, he and co-author Isabelle Taylor trace the history of race courses, beginning with the Circus Maximus and the first century B.
The almost complete amphitheater and circus outside the main city are made all the more intriguing by virtue of their relative neglect.
Although he founded the Bobby Roberts Super Circus in 1993, he cut his teeth with the circus founded by his late father and uncle.
The Genting announcement is the latest sign that the stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard home to Circus Circus and the Stratosphere might be turning around.
"You didn't go to a circus, you went to the circus, " said one historian about Barnum-esque circuses: They were, in truth, all the same.
There's not much to those memories, but I distinctly recall the tinny circus sounds accompanying the opening animation of Clowns and Balloons and a fez-sporting monkey perched on a high wire.
Here on Washington Avenue, a group of residents is hard at work battening down the circus float they made the other week, emptying the built-in cooler of Miller-High Life and assembling board games for the long nights to come.
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The circus was invented in the 1760s by a British cavalry officer, Philip Astley, who started with trick riding, moved on to "hippodrama" (plays in which horses took center stage) and established many of the basics of circuses, including brass-band marching tunes, a broad center ring and even the "big top" itself.
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On the Internet, I can manufacture my own philharmonic orchestra, with string sections and woodwinds playing my music from all over the world, as I did with my orchestral album " Circus in the Sky, " which is a full representation of my approach to music and storytelling.
Examples of hearts-dominant founders profiled in the book include Guy Laliberte, who parlayed his vision for a revamped circus into the billion dollar Cirque du Soleil giant and Doris Christopher, the home-economics teacher who believed every home chef should have professional grade tools.
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Private events such as Fashion Week and the Big Apple Circus have subleased the park for up to 10 months a year, making much of it virtually off-limits to the neighborhood, the residents say.
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Danish freelance journalist Berit Muhlhausen, who co-directs the circus, made sure word of the performances spread.
However, when the Flying Circus finally took to the air in October it was clear that their efforts had surpassed Milligan's.
Pitched somewhere between a circus and the Animal Planet television channel, the safari has become a mainstay of the Kenyan economy.
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Meanwhile Chris Small criticised the 'circus' atmosphere at the China Open after slumping to a 10th straight defeat against Telford's Adrian Gunnell.
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Instead, the policing of the pre-show circus fell to the publicists, who hovered over their respective stars--if they let us at them at all.
It was like waiting for the trip to the amusement park, like waiting for the circus tents to rise out of the fields the next town over.
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