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...another sideshow, "The Angry Arts Against the War in Vietnam"--a group of Greenwich Village intellectuals staged six different "carnivals of death" on floats around the Park. One show consisted of poetry readings delivered from a stage decorated with sculptures of mutilated babies and severed hands. The whole thing was entitled, "Vietnam Monument, Designed by Johnson, McNamara...
Even in the somber setting of a courtroom, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's spectacular investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was barely distinguishable from a circus sideshow. In a hearing to determine whether retired Businessman Clay Shaw, 54, should be tried on charges of conspiring with Lee Harvey Oswald and others to murder the late President, "Big Jim" produced only two prosecution witnesses. One was a confessed heroin addict. The other was a young insurance salesman whose impeccable clothing concealed a mind in considerable disarray and whose memory had to be jogged by means...
From Cassius Sr. comes the sideshow clown that the Champ's fans know and loathe so well. The father, says Olsen, is a tiny, mercurial man "whose arguments take the form of loud outbursts accompanied by agitated wavings of the arms; he stutters and swallows and backs up and repeats and runs into the bathroom to spit. He has no speech defect except an uncontrollable urge to be heard right now." The Clays have had a stormy marriage, and most family members believe that their battles, which often were refereed at the local police precinct in Louisville, contributed...
...Paris Burning? "Well, what the hell," said General Eisenhower, "I guess we'll have to go in." The Supreme Commander was talking about the liberation of Paris in late August 1944, and his remark quite properly categorizes that event as a military sideshow. In this Franco-American production, how, ever, the liberation is celebrated as a military epic, the greatest victory of the Gallic spirit since Roland held the pass at Roncesvalles...
While the sideshow went on in Detroit, General Electric and Westinghouse negotiators sat down with unions representing 180,000 electrical workers for what promises to be the main labor event in 1966. For weeks, G.E. has been fighting to prevent a coalition of eight unions, led by the International Union of Electrical Workers, into a single bargaining agent. Under present law, such a labor gang-up would seem to be patently illegal. But federal courts have ordered both G.E. and Westinghouse to talk to the unions as a group while the National Labor Relations Board frets over the problem...