1.   And the opening number, in which the members of the freak show take their places wearing only impassive expressions and somber street clothes, is a quiet stunner.

2.   Audiences will always love gimmicks and freak shows, and talented young people are prime fodder for exploitation.

3.   A circus crowd always loves a freak show.

4.   Burkhart said freak shows died for a couple reasons.

5.   But now the Olympics is just a freak show.

6.   But the promise of the initial breakup of that monopoly has degenerated into a political and economic freak show.

7.   Denouncing TV freak shows is politically easy, cheap ... and long overdue.

8.   During the next four days, until the bloom wilted and shed, thousands of visitors jammed the normally tranquil botanical garden like gawkers at a carnival freak show.

9.   Enough with false macho and what has become a tired freak show.

10.   Even before the current vitriol, Albany used to be considered something of a parliamentary freak show.