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...telephoned Berg's KOA outlet from some 30 states. Callers were comforted by KOA disc jockeys sobbing their way through their own shows. A blind man was led to Berg's garage door so that he could put his fingers into the bullet holes. Of this bizarre circus atmosphere, Peter Boyles, a radio talk-show host and close friend of Berg's, said, "Alan would have loved it." And, no doubt, would have had plenty to say about...
...younger days, a truck hit my car and I spent nine months in an itchy body cast, but I no longer have painful, or even unpleasant, memories of the event." Thompson, in reporting the cover story, was especially impressed by Seattle Anesthesiologist John Bonica, an immigrant and former circus strongman who went on to become a pioneer in the field of pain alleviation...
...exhausted," Tate recalled earlier this year of that five-overtime circus. "But after the first overtime, they weren't going to score on me. We had come too far as a team. It was the first time I've felt so confident--especially that year, since we were supposed to be a joke...
...Wonderwall, which connects the two main gates. Though it was designed for a practical purpose, to divert the eye from overhead power lines, fantasy has overtaken function. The fair's master architects, Perez Associates, claim that the Wonderwall was inspired by Piranesi's etching of the Circus Maximus in Rome, but the multicolored Styrofoam and Fiberglas-mesh structure looks more as if it had been dreamed up in a Bourbon Street bar by the design team of Dali and Disney. Grecian urns and Roman busts sit among the rooftops; gilded cherubs toot their horns; alligators double as seats...
...delegates-he falls short. His aim instead is to deny a first-round victory to Mondale. At the convention, Hart then hopes to win over uncommitted delegates, woo others away from Mondale, and get still other Mondale delegates thrown out. "It's now a three-ring circus," says Caddell. "The primaries, the delegate battle, and the rules and credentials fights." Hart claims that some 500 Mondale delegates should be disqualified because they were chosen with the help of "delegate committees," groups set up with money mostly from labor political action committees (PACS). Mondale has disbanded these ill-advised committees...