Sentences with phrase «circus elephant»

Just days after the devastating tornado ripped through Joplin, Mo., on May 22, extra help showed up in the unlikely form of circus elephants.

And Lewis at one point has a character's internal monologue describe the «entire history of Wall Street» as the «story of scandals... linked together tail to trunk like circus elephants.»

Tim Burton is also working on a live - action version of Dumbo, which has PETA already asking him to change the story's ending and have the floppy - eared circus elephant retire to a sanctuary instead.

These efforts culminated in 1903 with the public electrocution of Topsy, a six - ton circus elephant, shown here.

As the older man restores Red, he recalls his own adventures with it, rescuing a cat, bringing water to some thirsty circus elephants, and saving library books from a raging inferno.

Good news for circus elephants.

«I think circus elephants always look so sad,» said Lowcountry mom and doctor, Jen Fiorini.

And for some reason, Cavendish and his men are utterly obsessed with the lone circus elephant in the game.

The onslaught of these dreamlike hardedge pop works derived from Robert William's successful magazine catering to street artists the world over is enough to make me feel sorry for Artforum, which feels so old and tired, like a hobbled circus elephant, here at ArtPad.

The list was assembled by the editors of The Dodo, a website tracking biological wonders (the sea turned black by shoals of anchovies) and issues (the use of bullhooks on circus elephants) that arise when Homo sapiens interacts, for good or ill, with other animals.

Interesting fact about St. Thomas, is that «Jumbo», the famous travelling circus elephant was killed in September of 1885 when a train ran into him.

The Oscar - nominated actor is in talks to take a lead role in Tim Burton's spin on the classic 1941 animated film about a big - eared circus elephant

Moment created virtual, moving «water» Microsoft fans could walk on and nearly upstaged the games themselves by projecting decorations on to a mechanical, performing circus elephant.

If your five - year - old daughter loves to collect toys, she will find this circus elephant interest.

By the time you get to 1883, you're at page 149 — and you're still only in February, with six months and a charming but overdramatized story about a circus elephant to go before the action starts.

As Allan travels further and further from the Old Folks» Home, he is gradually accumulates a band of well - intentioned followers (a hot - dog seller, red - headed divorcee, petty thief in his late sixties, hot - dog seller's estranged half - brother, Alsatian dog and circus elephant) as well as some pursuers intent on getting a story, on malice or on prosecution (the members of a criminal gang, the police, a prosecutor and journalists).

Other stories have an air of fable about them: «The Miracle Year of Little Fork» is about a community buffeted by extreme weather after the death of a circus elephant and in «The Singing Women,» a story stunning in its brevity, a composer records the folk songs of two women in a village slated for destruction.

In addition to the French legislation, cosmetics testing on animals was banned in Europe in 2013, Congress requested an investigation of a government - funded animal research lab in 2014 and the Ringling Brothers finally decided to retire all its circus elephants by 2018.

«Play Dead, Real Time,» which is now in MoMA's permanent collection, consists of two giant projectors and a smaller monitor displaying a silent video of a circus elephant.

The most successful ones at the moment look at Constable's «The Cornfield» and the Douglas Gordon's video of a circus elephant performing tricks in an art gallery.

There is an option for cat fans too, but sadly nothing for hobbyist trainers of lions or circus elephants.