Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though the supposed travels of these tents, over plains and dunes, had gaudily stained the canvas with memory; the fabric develops what it wit nessed, like a Polaroid photo. They also suggest sideshow tents - bright, tacky signs advertising freaks and marvels. As the British Empire's cartographers once colored half the world red, Ferrer is busy coloring it Puerto Rican, smeared with acid-drop colors, scrawled with looping graffiti. There are few artists of this energy at work today...
...among them TIME'S Stanley Cloud. Apparently referring to the press, Carter quoted the New Testament, 1 John 4: "They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them." But Carter stressed that the gathering would not be turned into a political sideshow: "Our only purpose is to study about Christ...
...exhibition not to be missed is Red Grooms' walk-through, gloriously zany sideshow at the Marlborough Gallery (40 W. 57th St.) titled Ruckus Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 19), a coarsely affectionate tribute to this battered queen of American cities, in spirit somewhere between Lenny Bruce and Rube Goldberg. Farther down the block at the Allan Frumkin Gallery (50 W. 57th St.), a group of artists, among them Ceramist Robert Arneson and Painter Peter Saul, are poking none-too-gentle fun at the patriotic excesses of the Bicentennial. The Brewster Gallery (1018 Madison Ave.) has a solid group of more than...
Sharp Spikes. The sideshow barkers extolled their wares: "Miss Delilah, the girl who thrives on electricity and smiles when we push the switch on her very own electric chair," and "El Diablo, the king of fire, the human volcano," and "the human blockhead who loves to pound large sharp spikes and razor-tipped awls into his skull...
...sixties, when the emotional energy behind university politics was far greater, it would have been rare for the Crimson to give so much space to such an ill-informed piece. But in those days the tarring and feathering of academics--some of them indeed culpable elitists--was merely a sideshow. Today it is in the center ring...