Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actors' Showcase. Age has not refined Sweet Bird's effulgent bathos. The reduction of personality to sex organs is the dynamic of skin flicks and soap op era. Sad to say, Williams wrote this Petit Guignol sideshow in the late '50s, soon after completing his masterpiece, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Today it seems fatally misconceived, a sentimental melodrama instead of a savage, black comedy on southern mores...
...Peabody's retrospect on 19th-century Boston museums is worth visiting, if only to see the "Feejee Mermaid" that made a fortune for Barnum & Bailey as a sideshow attraction. Carpenter Center's exhibition of hand weaving and basketwork exemplifies Horatio Greenough's dictum that "Beauty is the promise of action," better known as "Form follows function...
...Mere Sideshow. The only really angry fight at the conference was between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus. The Turks were furious that Archbishop Makarios was there representing Cyprus (instead of a figure who would somehow represent both the Greek and Turkish communities) and stormed out of the conference hall while he was speaking. Later the Turks announced that they would sign the Helsinki declaration, known as the "Final Act," with a unilateral reservation that none of its provisions would be valid for Cyprus until a "legitimate representative" of the island republic had signed. During a private meeting, Ford offered Turkish...
Despite their long speechmaking sessions, the conference leaders had plenty of time for bilateral discussions. There were moments, in fact, when the conference seemed a mere sideshow, reminding some American observers of Lyndon Johnson's old line about state funerals: "They give you a chance to pay your respects-and get a little business done." Besides two meetings with Brezhnev, Ford talked privately with, among others, Britain's Wilson, France's Giscard, Turkey's Demirel and Greek Premier Constantine Caramanlis. The champion in the bilateral race was Chancellor Schmidt, who managed 14 meetings with 13 other...
...describes her career, Garland made 37 films. Only a handful are memorable and only one, The Wizard of Oz, is a classic. But she gave more than 100 concerts and broadcasts that brought millions of listeners in on her waif length. Eventually her performances also exhibited-as at a sideshow-a manic-depressive grotesque who shrilled off-key and forgot once familiar lyrics. In the last years she attracted throngs of gay and melancholy Garland freaks whose adulation was a form of cruelty. Echoes of the cruelty and the applause that masked it can still be detected in three predatory...