Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whenever a young Bradbury hero appears, a sideshow of grotesques cannot be far away. It is peopled by a "canary lady" who never leaves her empty birdcages, an enormously fat opera singer, a blind black man with at least seven senses, and Mr. Shapeshade, the owner of an obsolete cinema with one word on the marquee: GOODBYE. They and other harmless old creatures are the apparent prey of Mr. Lonely Death, "a happy child in the fields of the Antichrist." With the aid of a local detective who would rather be writing novels, the narrator winnows a weird field...
...Spartacus Youth League (SYL) provides a familiar sideshow to almost every campus protest with banners and chanting...
Some fellow clergymen viewed his ministry as an entrepreneurial sideshow. One of them, the Rev. John Killinger of Lynchburg's First Presbyterian Church, rose in the pulpit in 1981 and asked his parishioners whether they believed Jesus would ever have appeared on the Old Time Gospel Hour. It was a sharp rebuke from the right side of the tracks. Falwell struck back with typical venom, mispronouncing Killinger's name as Dillinger. Falwell's aggressive tone may have given some of his supporters violent ideas: Killinger and his family began getting death threats...
...this festival's few moments of redeeming silliness. For the third straight year, a nagging rain dampened spirits, and neither green-haired mimes nor 6-ft.-tall strolling Care Bears could lure visitors outside. The weather also diminished opportunities for the festival's oldest and most assiduously recorded sideshow: the ritual display of starlet flesh. Young women desiring to disrobe in public were forced to go high tech. Isabelle Solar, chief ornament of the French soft-core epic Joan, could be seen on the closed-circuit hotel TV network slipping into a steamy bubble bath. In other respects, Cannes voyeurism...
Body fashions are, above all, a matter of aesthetics. A woman who chooses to remake her body may be developing a more efficient living machine, but she is also helping to redefine the boundaries of femininity. One man's Helen of Troy is another man's sideshow hermaphrodite. So when Francis strolls in to meet her more discreetly muscled competitors for the World Cup, she causes the commotion of a punk rocker intruding on an at home at Lady Astor's. Producer- Director George Butler catches many weirdly poignant moments, backstage and onstage, from a sport in which women declare...