Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Olympics both a garland of honor for the U.S. and a mortification to Hitler. Within months, though, even with medals on his bureau and his degree from Ohio State in one of its drawers, he was able to support himself only by racing against horses as a sort of sideshow at Negro League baseball games. To TIME, he was variously the "coffee-colored" Owens, "the world's fastest blackamoor" or "the dusky speedster." But to Jackie Robinson and millions of other black Americans, he was inspiration and paladin, a sign of things to come...
...they fear he may be out to provoke a crisis to dissolve parliament, possibly even banning them," says Quinn-Judge. "And of course, they have a demonstrably incompetent leadership." Stepashin made the usual promises about fighting corruption and reforming the economy. But Russians see Stepashin as a familiar sideshow, while real power remains in the hands of an all-powerful president whose physical and mental health are in perilous decline...
...Jackson's visit is a sideshow in the diplomatic endgame. The man Washington is hoping will broker an honorable deal was also headed to town Thursday: Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin will meet Milosevic after consultations in Germany and Italy, hoping to generate momentum toward a negotiated settlement. The air war continues, meanwhile. One missile appears to have strayed into a suburb of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which caused considerable alarm in a country seeking NATO membership. And on the Yugoslavian home front, President Milosevic sacked Deputy Prime Minister Vuk Draskovic from his cabinet after Draskovic publicly urged acceptance...
...most entertaining sideshow of the war in Kosovo is staged almost every day at the Pentagon's press briefing room. There exasperated reporters conduct jousting sessions with uniformed military commanders in vain attempts to divine the most banal of battlefield data information. How many NATO air strikes have been aborted because of bad weather? "I'm afraid I can't get into that level of detail right off the top of my head," Vice Admiral Scott Fry said at a Pentagon briefing early in the campaign. How about an approximation? "I'd prefer not to even approximate it." A ballpark...
...hard to understand why this works. Why would anyone pay for a book or a magazine just for scoops you already know about from the publicity? But people do. Partly they've been suckered by the sideshow barker's trick of implying that there's more inside when there ain't. But partly there is pleasure in holding and owning something that's making news, even if it's news you already know. And journalists love producing scoops for something like the same reason. There's a thrill in being the first to report something, even if it's basically...