Sentences with phrase «at circus life»

In spite of its brief 75 - minute runtime, Circo, a documentary portrait of the Circo Mexico circus troupe, is too sprawling to be the comprehensive look at circus life that its...

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But then Magnus himself puts on the clown's white face, and at the end, the clown rides again into the next town — with the circus of life.

This might be hard for you to believe but life in our house can feel like a circus at times.

I'm also a professional company director / company secretary and at one point in my life I spent a year working as a trapeze artist and circus instructor (yep, really!).

What Britain's newspaper The Guardian called a circus started at 2:09 p.m. EST on February 16, when Space.com broke what it billed as an exclusive: «NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars.»

The pampered plutocrats of the bronze age adore football in a bread - and - circuses sort of way, but it turns out that the stone age crew were once themselves pretty useful at the beautiful game, and a sensational pre-credit sequence tells us the extraordinary role that football played at the dawn of time in shaping life on earth.

Circus offers equal treatment to performers, stage crew and management, showing how a circus operates and the conflicts that inevitably erupt when 150 people share such close quarters, living out of trailers for months at a time.

There's a palpable thirst in Hollywood and elsewhere for, if not clarity, then at least a force of equal and opposite magnitude to the grim circus that's become our collective daily life.

Author Duncan Wall on modern circus at BAM, the 2013 Independent Film Forum, five - time Tony winner Audra McDonald in L.A. for one - night only, James Toback's latest film (with Alec Baldwin) premieres on HBO, and «The Nose» in theaters via the «Met: Live in HD» series are what we...

After freeing the young man from the circus and curing him of his back problem, Frankenstein offers the lost soul a chance at greatness: to be his partner and create life.

Yet, somehow this, at times, «over the top» approach seems to work, especially when the film deals with the events surrounding the attack on Kerrigan and the unprecedented real life media circus that ensued at the time.

Here is one of the most noir of all Bergman's films (along with «Hour of the Wolf» and «The Serpent's Egg»): a German Expressionist - style nightmare of a film about life at a circus, in three rings of adultery, jealousy and torment.

In fact, real life is bad in The Greatest Showman universe: It's full of snobs and killjoys and realists, who are lined up alongside bigots who protest the circus because it is «an abomination» and critics who sniff at what goes on in the ring because it «isn't art.»

«Victor Frankenstein,» which was written by Max Landis, follows a hunchback nameless clown (Daniel Radcliffe) who dreams of finally escaping his life - long imprisonment at the circus.

The ringmaster of the three - ring circus is matriarch Junon (Catherine Deneuve), a cancer patient suffering from the same strain of leukemia which took the life of one of her sons at the age of 7.

Epic in sweep, Metropolis follows our hero from his arrival in New York harbor through his experiences in Barnum's circus, the criminal underground, and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, and on to a life in Brooklyn that is at once unique and poignantly emblematic of the American experience.

Hear how at 91 years of age he is heavily involved in helping Animal Defenders International save circus lions from a cruel life in Peru.

Take a trip to the other side of the strip for live circus acts, arcade games, and thrills at the Adventuredome at Circus Circus Hotel and Casino.

Recently, exhibitions have tended towards the ludic quality of Klee's oeuvre: last year, «Bauhaus: Art as Life» at the Barbican presented an array of Klee's extraordinary puppets, while BOZAR's 2008 exhibition «Paul Klee: Theatre Here, There and Everywhere» explored Klee's colour harmonies based on musical notation, as well as his interest in dance, circus and masks.

For anyone who has ever dreamt of running away with the circus or simply wondered what life is like for the jugglers, clowns, and acrobats, a new exhibition at The Harley Gallery in Worksop by acclaimed photographer Peter Lavery captures what goes on behind the scenes at the Big Top.

The send - off will include additional arts and entertainment — Open Mic, curated by WonderRoot; performances by Atlanta's circus, the Imperial Opa; live music by Klezmer Local 42 — stuff for children and «Insomniac Tours» of the exhibition by guest curator Elliott King (at 1, 3 and 5 a.m.).

If amusement is as indispensable as food for human life — the Roman emperors provided bread and circuses at the same time — Amusement Romana is a place for people to elicit an individual sense of pleasure here and now».

After suffering for years under deplorable conditions as circus animals in Bolivian circuses, on Wednesday 25 lions will soon be starting a new life at a wildlife sanctuary in Colorado.

Another account (with another photo) has him at eight feet, six inches, and says he started his adult life as a professional giant touring with circuses including Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey, and then became a traveling salesman.