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Just how deep does the reading rage go? In the superstores--Barnes & Noble, Borders, Crown--where busy workers are sometimes more familiar with the inventory of flavored coffees than the location of the new John Updike novel--reading can seem like a sideshow, not the main event. Flutes play. Writers recite. Young singles munch bagels. Toddlers look for Waldo. "The idea of the cafe and the couches," says Steve Riggio, Barnes & Noble's chief operating officer, "is to make the store a good place to spend leisure time." Riggio's concept appears to be working. Superstores are expanding and multiplying...
Alas, much more is lacking. Helfgott, who as a teenager showed much promise until a breakdown sent him off to mental institutions for 12 years, is now scarcely more than a pathetic sideshow attraction, put on display by his promoters and his wife for the delight of the undiscerning, if adoring, audiences who found Shine so moving. This was evident last week when Helfgott, who will be 50 in May, appeared before a capacity crowd of 2,600 in Boston's Symphony Hall to play his first U.S. recital. His handlers dubbed the evening a "Celebration of Life," but they...
...what became a sideshow for the public remained a vital issue for the small group of people whose isolation she had broken. "Into the '80s," says Edward Cohen, a Manhattan writer working on a book about modern atheists, "people would hear her speak live or on the air, their mouths would hang open. It reassured them that they weren't the only ones on earth to feel this way." Says Orin ("Spike") Tyson, a friend and employee of O'Hair's who is now living, albeit embattled, in the house on Greystone Drive: "She went out in public and made...
...every four years and draws to it a vast national--even global--audience of observers, analysts and commentators who declaim its significance and decry its flaws. A simultaneous event, the election of the Congress of the United States, arguably the anchor of American democracy, is often treated as a sideshow...
Kemp has the greater burden, but not because he and Dole may be buried in a landslide. In actively courting minority voters--a sideshow wholly separate from Dole's effort--Kemp has set himself against recent Republican history. "All too often in the past," Kemp said not long ago, Republicans have "had that Southern strategy that said we want to go after the white vote and had better not try to get black votes because it might lose those white votes. That is shameful." That it is. But Kemp's stance could cost him dearly in the 2000 primaries, where...