Word: sideshow
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...buildings. That a large investor has come to the neighborhood is a vindication of the city's strategy to spark private interest by plowing municipal money into improvements such as a minor-league baseball stadium. Coney Island fixture Dick Zigun, who has brought back old traditions like the circus sideshow and invented new ones like the Mermaid Parade, reflects the population's pragmatism: "We went far on spirit alone, but there's only so much you can do without multimillion-dollar investment...
...this fact-based drama about a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) testing his scruples against the seductions of power. The film replays the old Graham Greene trope of Europeans acting out their fascination and guilt amid Third World chaos. In this case, that makes for a tepid and implausible sideshow to the immense horror of Amin's genocidal rule...
...work-in the field, its links with mysticism and Freudian theory have repelled others like a bad odor. Everybody dreams and most people talk about theirs now and again. But once, as children, we learn to distinguish these delusions from reality, dreams usually become no more than a sideshow, sometimes disturbing, occasionally poignant, but mostly something to be forgotten, quickly and completely, if they were remembered in the first place...
...Tent Commandments” is a tale of a late-19th century struggle for survival between a circus and a sideshow, punctuated by undertones that—according to a Hasty Pudding press release—include “forbidden love and deception.” —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...kamikazes were only a sideshow in the Pacific Theater. Thomas’ overarching aim is to substantiate his opening epigraph, a quote from Churchill—“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.” Thomas paraphrases that adage again in the book’s final sentence, and the intervening 335 pages provide proof. The case is both riveting and persuasive; one only wishes it were confined to the realm of history...