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...electoral achievement was spiced by a titillating sideshow. Among the candidates was Raquel Blandon, President Cerezo's wife. Although the Cerezos have discreetly been maintaining separate residences for more than a year, Blandon's run for office put an added strain on their complicated domestic arrangement. Their marriage has reportedly been tested by Cerezo's much rumored dalliances with other women...
...same extraordinary memory won him applause as a youth when he edified family members by reciting by memory the list of American presidents. "At times, it was like a sideshow," he recalls. "Step right up and see the smart...
...steered by Likud's Yitzhak Shamir, who refuses to budge from one inch of the West Bank. If only his position on that key issue were a little more ambiguous. The recent diplomatic progress between the Arabs and the U.S., however welcome, could still end up being a sideshow to the tragedy of the principals passing in the night. As the P.L.O.'s leaders are becoming less rejectionist, Israel's are becoming more so. Israel may be undergoing a self-transformation of the wrong kind...
...boxing. This frenetic production has hardly destroyed her reputation; she is a literary figure of considerable clout, she holds a tenured professorship at Princeton University, and every fall her name is rumored to be on the short list for the Nobel Prize. But there is something of the sideshow about her renown among the general reading public; she is widely recognized as the woman who turns out all those books, less often as the author of a single, unforgettable narrative. Thanks to her own energy, nothing she has written has ever been long-awaited...
...incorrectly reported that this was running last week. Performance Space Space Performance (formerly Performance Space Six), the group that produced the Sea Monkey's Sideshow multi-media extravaganza last May at the Carpenter Center, is behind this event, which features simultaneous acts of creativity by musicians, fencers, painters and storyteller Brother Blue...