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Nightbreed's monumental scope, superb production design, and amusingly forgivable flaws warrant its reevaluation, "argues Imprint:" Everything you've heard about this Masters of Horror episode, which was too violent for Showtime to air on cable television, is true, though I imagine some of its carnivalesque gore may even come as a shock to Peter Jackson's early career, retaining the stop-motion and bloodletting of and the puppetry and slapstick sexual exploits of— GreenCine Daily
In the midst of the temporary tent city could be seen glimpses of another world, in the form of visual art (on every available surface, as chalk drawings, banners and politically charged art installations), live music (ad hoc jam sessions and Samba), pedal powered sound systems and kitchens, people dressed in carnivalesque costumes, open air meetings and meditation sessions, even a performance poetry workshop.— ((i)) Indymedia :: Athens :: Κεντρική Σελίδα
Pakistan was favorably contrasted with India: a socialist democracy with a carnivalesque political scene, an asphyxiating bureaucracy and a "Hindu rate of growth" apparently fixed at 3 percent of G.D.P. Of course, that was then.— Bloggers.Pakistan
"Me Against the Music" backed by Bollywood-inspired dancers, "Do Somethin '," the more than suggestive "Touch of My Hand" and the pleasantly controversial "If U Seek Amy," made all the more carnivalesque when Britney wielded a big pink hammer and gave her dancers the whack-a-mole treatment.— E! Online (US) - Top Stories
Questions are being asked in London about the tactics adopted by British police to deal with even the most carnivalesque protesters during the Group of 20 summit last week.— The Lede

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