Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Andy Warhol's cover illustration portrays the antics of monkeys in a sideshow. One might infer that today's teenagers make a joke of the responsibility inherent in their premature sophistication...
Nothing but a Man is a picture for people who are sick of the self-seekers and the headline-hunters who often turn the civil rights movement into a political sideshow. With impressive insight and objectivity, it goes straight to the heart of the matter: in a clear and simple story it describes what life is like for an average Negro in America...
...usual in the unreal atmosphere of Viet Nam, war in all its ugly violence was exploding in the nearby countryside as the dreamlike sideshow of intrigue unfolded in Saigon. Near Soctrang, 90 miles south of the capital, a regional patrol stumbled on a regimental headquarters of 1,500 Viet Cong, who were dug into a field and camouflaged. Rangers, backed by air support that sowed the field with some 288,000 bullets, 4,000 20-mm. cannon shells, 1,552 rockets and 37,000 Ibs. of bombs, scattered the Red nest. At least 87 Viet Cong were killed...
...name, although she worries some about the stigma affecting her children, June Lee, 2, and Rachel, 1. She has had mountains of marriage proposals and other bizarre propositions (a man from Kentucky offered her $50,000 if she would let him exhibit Oswald's body in a sideshow, another $100,000 if she would accompany the display). She still broods about last Nov. 22, and she feels particularly bad about Jackie Kennedy's loss. "It's hard enough to lose a bad husband," said Marina. "I wonder how it is to lose a good...
...list. The hero is a Neapolitan con man who marries a girl covered tip to toe with monkey fur (played by pretty Annie Girardot, who spent two hours getting hairy every day, three hours shaving every night). He has a purpose: he figures he can put her in his sideshow and his fortune will be made. He does, he prospers, then-alas-she gets pregnant. Worse yet, she dies in childbirth. But all is not lost. He has the corpse embalmed, puts it on show, and trade is as brisk as ever...