Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Recently, when getting beer for his buddies, McGwire returned to his car to see people leaving their cars and slowly walking to him with pens outstretched. He described the scene to comedian Mark Pitta as The Night of the Living Dead. So McGwire wants to separate himself from the sideshow, to prevent himself from becoming Roger Maris. In 1961, unhappy that a relatively unimpressive player (Maris' second best year was 39 home runs, his career average was .260) threatened Ruth's place in history, some fans sent him death threats and regularly booed him, even at home games in Yankee...
...horror stories were coin of the realm at Tuesday's Senate Finance Committee hearings into the agency. But TIME correspondent Bruce Van Voorst believes Senator William Roth?s hearings are something of a sideshow: ?We went through all of this a few weeks ago, and now we?re getting four more days of it. Roth is playing to the gallery,? says Van Voorst. ?The problem with the U.S. internal revenue system isn?t the agency; it?s the irreparably complex tax code -- which was created by Congress...
...these three archetypes have not whetted your appetite for more Springer, then you are abnormal. Jerry is the reigning talk show king of America, having recently unseated Oprah and her book club. Jerry has tapped into the pulse of the heartland, resurrected the spirit of the circus sideshow and rescued breast-milk fetishists from the social margins...
...schlock. It's also mean-spirited and cynical," sniffs academic dean Wayne Morris. "Art attempts to address the human condition," says visiting faculty member Moe Brooker, "and you don't trivialize the human spirit." Nor do you feature "a sideshow" in the window, says student Pam Feldman, when you are collecting $15,500 in tuition from someone who invests "all my time and energy to become a better painter...
...penalty shot] could have been called, it could not have been called," Prestifilippo said. "I've seen none here and probably only one or two in high school. I just wanted to win the game and that was kind of just a sideshow...