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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face=Georgia>Taking 18<SUP>th</SUP> century
entertainment into the 21<SUP>st</SUP> century</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ">The circus is in town</SPAN></I><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face=Georgia>This simple phrase can’t help but
activate sense memories in our inner-child – the giddy excitement felt while
walking into the Big Top, the omnipresent sweet and sour smells of animal acts
and cotton candy, and the tingle of innocent eroticism and danger generated by
scantily clad entertainers performing in and above the three-rings of the
“Greatest Show on Earth.” </FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
Circus, which is celebrating 146 years of performing an art form first
introduced to the U.S. in 1793, will be at </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-bidi-font-family: calibri">Quicken Loans
Arena from Oct. 20 – 23</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face=Georgia>Step right up.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or not, for other phrases have worked
their way into discussions about the circus of late.<SPAN
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