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...most obvious, the book is a natural history of dwarfs, giants, hermaphrodites, Siamese twins, mutants, the monstrously fat, the grotesquely thin, dog-faced boys and zoophagous geeks. But the richly illustrated work is in fact a combination sideshow, meditation on human nature and medical textbook of the sort that librarians once kept locked away with scandalous volumes like Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leslie Fiedler's Monster Party | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

When it comes to TV news broadcasts [Aug. 22], I can live without weathermen who sound like fugitives from a sideshow, beautiful anchor people, "analysts" who produce instant wisdom for any calamity, and minicamera coverage of criminals in action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1977 | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...though the supposed travels of these tents, over plains and dunes, had gaudily stained the canvas with memory; the fabric develops what it wit nessed, like a Polaroid photo. They also suggest sideshow tents - bright, tacky signs advertising freaks and marvels. As the British Empire's cartographers once colored half the world red, Ferrer is busy coloring it Puerto Rican, smeared with acid-drop colors, scrawled with looping graffiti. There are few artists of this energy at work today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ferrer: A Voyage with Salsa | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...among them TIME'S Stanley Cloud. Apparently referring to the press, Carter quoted the New Testament, 1 John 4: "They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them." But Carter stressed that the gathering would not be turned into a political sideshow: "Our only purpose is to study about Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Georgia Deacon's Day | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...exhibition not to be missed is Red Grooms' walk-through, gloriously zany sideshow at the Marlborough Gallery (40 W. 57th St.) titled Ruckus Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 19), a coarsely affectionate tribute to this battered queen of American cities, in spirit somewhere between Lenny Bruce and Rube Goldberg. Farther down the block at the Allan Frumkin Gallery (50 W. 57th St.), a group of artists, among them Ceramist Robert Arneson and Painter Peter Saul, are poking none-too-gentle fun at the patriotic excesses of the Bicentennial. The Brewster Gallery (1018 Madison Ave.) has a solid group of more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Summer Art | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

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