Word: sideshows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents did not want the sideshow life of a prodigy for the eldest of their three children. When the television show The $64,000 Question called, trying to book Jimmy for an appearance, they declined. When Comedian Sam Levenson wanted to cast him as a musical genius in a TV show, they turned him down. When the legendary piano teacher Rosina Lhévinne of the Juilliard School first heard Jimmy play and said, "I must have this child," they told her to wait until he was older. Says Levine: "My parents handled all the critical decisions of my early...
Andy Young's rooming group is diverse even by Harvard standards. A pet bos constrictor and a tarantula make the Dunster House senior's room look like a cross between a natural preserve and a carnival sideshow. But along with his menagerie, Young brought to Harvard an interest in the study of animals and a highly developed skill in photographing and filming them in their native habitats on three continents...
...Blob," as it has since been dubbed, was only the first in a series of MIT pranks, which added a comic sideshow to the traditional revelry of the Harvard Yale game...
...some $4,342 of federal money spent on two Christmas parties at Arlington House, a National Park Service-owned mansion in Virginia. By this time, Watt was his old combative self: he refused to discuss the matter with a House subcommittee because it was conducting ' 'a media sideshow...
What remains important, as we remember the genocide of a decade ago, is the questions it forces. Why did it have to happen? Why with our government's support? The Nixon-Kissinger sideshow has achieved its aim--camaraderie with China and her people, cultural and scientific exchanges, and the opportunity to arm her to threaten the Soviet Union. A significant gain, perhaps, and cheap at the price of watching as many as three million people dye. Who wouldn't want to forget...