Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GLOBAL FORUM, Flamengo Park and other city sites, Rio, June 1-14 The largest sideshow will be an ecological Woodstock for an estimated 12,000 people from "nongovernmental organizations," including environmental groups, human-rights movements, religious communities, women's caucuses, youth associations, trade unions and alliances of indigenous peoples...
...only state where people could actually talk to the candidates in settings other than staged photo opportunities. Frightened by the middle-class recession, voters demanded of the candidates I-have-a-plan economic specifics and refused to be diverted from their high-minded commitment to issues by sideshow scandals...
...York's Jeffrey is bemused by the nominal confusion, saying it's "an annoyance more than a real problem." Harvard's Jeffrey, though, is not laughing. He says this has become a sideshow that distracts from serious matters at hand...
...around looking for roustabout jobs, met his first wife at a Salvation Army mission. When she left him in the summer of 1963, he hitchhiked all the way from the West Coast to Dallas looking for her. Picked up some work at the Texas state fair in a carney sideshow called "How Hollywood Makes Movies," which featured some of Jack Ruby's strippers. Made some connections and soon found himself living in the back room of the Carousel Club in the midst of Ruby's strange menage, which included strippers, burlesque comics, stage hypnotists and, of course, the dog Sheba...
...remember reading this testimony, mesmerized by my sudden immersion in a carnival-sideshow underbelly of American life. (The 26 volumes of Warren Commission testimony are like a vast, inchoate Great American Novel in that respect.) I didn't feel I was any closer to solving the Kennedy assassination, but I did feel I had learned more about the America that produced both Kennedy and his assassin than was conveyed by the bland, complacent sitcom image of the nation and its institutions that prevailed in November...