Sentence examples for carnival performer from inspiring English sources

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A popular Carnival performer who is 21 years Ms. Manigat's junior, he is best known for drawing young people into politics, and dropping his pants on stage.

I don't mean the 19th-century definition when a geek was "a carnival performer whose act involved biting the heads off helpless creatures".

A picture credit was omitted on Dec. 30 in the annual "Lives They Lived" issue with the article about the carnival performer Melvin Burkhart.

The story is "La Strada" without the poverty and fatalism: it follows the sadomasochistic, symbiotic relationship between a knocked-around carnival performer and his assistant.

She dug out her purse and offered up a couple of photographs of herself in folkloric costume: one, a Judith Jamison-like pose, the other, a slinky Carnival performer.

A geek was a sideshow or carnival performer who distinguished himself by his willingness to commit the most loathsome and humiliating acts on-stage--commonly, biting the head off a live chicken.

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Most balloonists before 1861 made their living as carnival performers and itinerant "professors" of chemistry.

Elsewhere, it accompanies field recordings of Carnival performers that Mr. Charles captured.

She produced portraits of everyone from celebrities to middle-class families to carnival performers.

Her portraits of couples, children, carnival performers, nudists, middle-class families, transvestites, eccentrics and celebrities have permeated the collective consciousness as a narrative of the human condition.

On "Carnival: The Sound of a People Vol. 1," Mr. Charles's band plays both alone and alongside field recordings of Carnival performers that the trumpeter captured.

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