carnival
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Instead, the movie is a carnival ride of random madcap adventures infused with slapstick and colorfully freaky creatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Something healed in me over my wedding weekend, watching my gringo groom sweat through his vintage Hollywood tux while learning to dance samba from a passista dressed in her carnival regalia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Musicians and acrobats joined the colorful floats, giving the downtown avenues a carnival atmosphere.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
At any rate, we’ve seen this carnival roadshow before, though it seems a bit different this time.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Saturday, the day I meet N at the carnival!
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
By the early 1990s, some crews in the U.K. began throwing megaraves more spiritually akin to experiential carnivals than to more lowkey dance-floor-and-DJ setups.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
Families popped it over wood stoves; peddlers sold it in paper cones at circuses, carnivals and busy promenades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
After that, his unclaimed body began its wanderings: as a greeter for an Oklahoma funeral home, as a sideshow attraction for touring carnivals, and even in a titillating 1933 pre-Code film, “Narcotic.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2025
She said the council had spent up to £30,000 in the parade and other St Patrick's Day events and hoped to increase the investment in carnivals and festivals in the coming years.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
Sometime in 1925 Johnny and his guardian pulled into the old mining town of Butte, Montana, where the local bullring racetrack linked up with a network of other tracks, carnivals, and fairs.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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