Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time, says petite Rosemary Casals, another U.S. star. "We expend the same amount of energy as the men. We practice as much. We play just as hard. We contribute our share to the success of a tournament." Nonetheless, a few of the men players still regard the women as sideshow attractions. Says Arthur Ashe: "Men are playing tennis for a living now. They have families, and they don't want to give up money just for girls to play. Only three or four women draw fans anyhow, so why do we have to split our money with them...
...current Congress, there are only eleven female members, as opposed to 19 nearly a decade ago. The problem, of course, was and is discrimination. All too often, the electorate still view women politicians as sideshow curiosities. The political doyens of both parties, who control campaign funds, have a disturbing tendency to disappear when a woman manages to capture a party nomination...
...looking, good-natured bumbler (Ken Howard) who throws horrible fits just often enough to keep the action moving. Of course, everyone in town despises them except the local fishmonger (James Coco), who springs for a weekend romp on the beach. There the fortunate viewer gets to see a sexual sideshow that includes Junie and the fit-thrower dancing in the nude, and the gay cripple going from bar to bar slung over the shoulder of a husky black named Beach Boy. The point? None whatever. The film's only redeeming social value is that it has prompted the Massachusetts...
...Battleground. The widening war involved more than a little irony. Though the search for Communist supplies went on, the business of "cleaning out" the sanctuaries (see box, page 27) reverted almost to a sideshow. Cambodia itself had become the main arena. Two months ago, when Premier Lon Nol and Deputy Premier Sirik Matak overthrew Prince Norodom Sihanouk, one of their major objectives was to rid the country of Communist Vietnamese troops. Now the Vietnamese loyal to Hanoi are outnumbered in Cambodia by Vietnamese loyal to Saigon, and the country of 7,000,000 has become a battleground for the warring...
Still, if one can take Nunquam as a sideshow, the minor Durrell delights are there. Who else would write, "The cinema is the No play of the Yes-Man"? And where else, in the year 1970, is there a novelist inclined to describe the aftereffects of a concussion as "darkness hanging like a Japanese print of an extinct volcano...