tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691745257761485017.post3714833603301612351..comments2024-03-27T22:46:04.804-07:00Comments on The Regency Looking Glass: Friday Follies: The art of the circusMaureen Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08103252687271508523noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691745257761485017.post-46197960573619425612018-01-31T12:04:07.699-08:002018-01-31T12:04:07.699-08:00I agree! The immediacy of a circus act - and not k...I agree! The immediacy of a circus act - and not knowing how it's going to play out - makes the experience special. Thanks for your comment!Maureen Mackeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08103252687271508523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691745257761485017.post-69611603714087679722018-01-28T11:49:11.502-08:002018-01-28T11:49:11.502-08:00The last time I saw a circus was Circus Circus in ...The last time I saw a circus was Circus Circus in Reno in the early 1990s – small scale acts by performers who really put their all into their work. One acrobatic act, by a young couple, probably in their twenties, who took on rope climbing with all manner of balancing and twisting between them as they dual climbed a vertical rope. Then, one of the partners slipped, caught by the other one. Only briefly did they betray concern across their faces, just to be replaced with forced smiles to keep the audience from suspecting how dangerous their act must have really been. A circus life must have been a really uncertain, itinerant life going from one Big Top show to the next, and every town must have looked the same. Your only family would have been the circus performers and your only future would have been the circus. I wonder if any of the circus people had health insurance, much less life insurance? Nowadays, we have all kinds of other entertainment, like 500 TV channels and the Internet. Nothing like the realism of the circus, though.<br />Tom Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05140018740919437666noreply@blogger.com