A Big-Top Summer on the Boardwalk
Jason ZinomanJune 26, 2010: At its best, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus managed to stage a spectacularly inflated sideshow with an exceptional ad campaign. In recent decades other circuses, big and small, have provided increasingly stiff competition, and while the big top has a few new tricks, the tent at the revamped Coney Island is most notable for harking back to its delightfully grubby past.
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