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Table of Contents: “…-- Wrestling the R.O.U.S in the fire swamp -- Storming the castle and being mostly dead -- Rob's traveling circus -- True wuv -- Vizzini and Miracle Max -- A couple of mishaps -- The greatest swordfight in modern times -- All good things -- A fairy tale ending -- Epilogue / by Norman Lear.…”

Table of Contents: “…Family heritage -- Circus days -- "444" -- "Greatest comic singer of the age" -- Tony Pastor's opera house -- The Elks, John Poole and touring success -- Variety's triumph -- New talent and crowded houses -- The emergence of Vaudeville -- The 14th Street theater -- "The most popular theater in town" -- Business challenges and changing audiences -- Continuous Vaudeville and shrinking profits -- Tony retires from the stage -- Struggling to stay open -- The venerable showman's decline.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction. The Circus Freak -- Writing a History of Total War -- Cultural Practice versus Cultural Ideology -- The Idea of Carnival; Carnival War -- The Five Kings of Carnival War -- The Reporter. …”
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Table of Contents: “…--The poet and the exercise of political power.--Caesarism, circuses, and monuments.--The French right and the working classes.…”

Table of Contents: “…Pater familias -- Origins of the "champaign system" -- Enter Vashti and James Terry McCollum -- The battle is joined -- The circus begins -- The trial, day two -- The trial, day three -- The trial, day four -- In the interim -- More fire and brimstone: the Stoddard controversy -- The first decision -- Round two: the first appeal -- The final assault -- Briefs and oral argument -- A landmark decision -- The right of Jimmy McCollum to go to hell -- One woman's fight -- Parting shots.…”

Table of Contents: “…Neuman was an arsonist -- Introduction of grape Jell-O -- Precociousness of Charlotte -- Brook Grassleggings episode -- Circus acrobat on the grass -- Year of the Jefferson airplaane -- Human parchment period -- How we delighted in seeing the fat -- Supernatural strobe light -- Ugliest man in Big Valley -- Ask the one who blesses the roots -- Junior pipestar -- Black eagle child quarterly -- Man squirrel shall not wake…”

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The Empire Is Written; Chapter 2: "A Very Fine Negress"; Chapter 3: Britannia Rules The Waves; Chapter 4: Laughing at Leviticus: Nightwood as Woman's Circus Epic; Chapter 5: Bonding and Bondage: Nancy Cunard and The Making of The Negro Anthology; Chapter 6: Laying Down the White Woman's Burden: Michael Arlen's The Green Hat and Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie; Coda: How to Recognize a Public Intellectual; Notes; Index; About the Author.…”
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Table of Contents: “…An orphan's fire -- A father in black robes -- The count and the club -- Walking right into trouble -- King Carl wins the crown -- Eastern Washington's first black lawyer -- Stirrings from the south -- The haircut uproar and a perfunctory execution -- Freedom summer in the tail end of America -- "The sickness of our nation" -- A right hook to scoop Jackson -- The Seattle seven circus -- The Maxey temper -- Ruth Coe's greek tragedy -- "No goddamned award" -- "Living through all this b.s." -- Type-A Gandhi.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Polar bear-human time line -- Map: Territories of northern peoples and polar bear range -- A beast for the ages -- The life and death of a superstar -- The bear as early commodity -- Object of scientific curiosity -- From white terror to trophy of modernity -- Zoo bear and circus bear -- Honored guest and ten-legged menace -- A taste of the wild -- The transformative bear -- Helper and protector -- Lover, super-male, mate -- Archetype, role model, eco ambassador -- Another seaside attraction.…”
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Table of Contents: “…An orphan's fire -- A father in black robes -- The count and the club -- Walking right into trouble -- King Carl wins the crown -- Eastern Washington's first black lawyer -- Stirrings from the south -- The haircut uproar and a perfunctory execution -- Freedom summer in the tail end of America -- "The sickness of our nation" -- A right hook to scoop Jackson -- The Seattle seven circus -- The Maxey temper -- Ruth Coe's greek tragedy -- "No goddamned award" -- "Living through all this b.s." -- Type-A Gandhi.…”

Table of Contents: “…Polar bear-human time line -- Map: Territories of northern peoples and polar bear range -- A beast for the ages -- The life and death of a superstar -- The bear as early commodity -- Object of scientific curiosity -- From white terror to trophy of modernity -- Zoo bear and circus bear -- Honored guest and ten-legged menace -- A taste of the wild -- The transformative bear -- Helper and protector -- Lover, super-male, mate -- Archetype, role model, eco ambassador -- Another seaside attraction.…”

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Table of Contents: “…--The tenant, by J. Riis.--The golden circus, by W. Lord.--The city comes to Main Street, by L. …”

Table of Contents: “…Silent divas of Italian cinema / Guy Maddin -- The geography of a book -- Cultural events and the diva film -- Mater Dolorosa -- Theory and technology -- The shape of time: Élan Vital and Memento Mori -- Laocoön's filmstrips: classicism, Marxism, Vitalism -- Orientalism: Ballets Russes, occultism, Canudo -- Wings of desire: aviation, fashion, circus stunts -- History and analysis -- Acting: prostitution, vertigo, close-up -- Modern women: minor stars and the short film -- Tropes: obsessions and traumas of a genre -- Nino Oxilia: blue blood and satanic rhapsody -- Beyond the femme fatale -- Biographical profiles of actresses.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The Writer as Criminal: "Pkhents" and "At the Circus" -- Ch. 4. Confrontations with God: "You and I" and "Graphomaniacs" -- Ch. 5. …”
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