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...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...

Author: By Cindy A. Berman and Diane M. Cardwell, S | Title: Techie Antics | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watt's Line | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joi Bangla | 2/11/1982 | See Source »

Prospero is a sage and a master of magic. Julia makes him a little bit of a world-weary sideshow carny barker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Isle of Blight | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...people who go through it. His last limousine is now a travelling exhibit. It tours the country, loaded on a trailer, and draws more people than any other automotive mausoleum except for the Bonnie and Clyde death car. It's something of America's new interstate sideshow. It's fitting that the new version of the ghoulish twoheaded fetus in a bottle should be this monstrous automobile. The crowds come from all over to see it and to buy souvenirs. It could be any city. This one happens to be in North Carolina...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The King's Last Limousine | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

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