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...Anderson--whose Cheerleader was a pitch-perfect rendering of a modern tabloid circus--also captures the made-for-TV ridiculousness of its buildup, from Riggs' shilling for Sugar Daddy caramel pops to the opponents' theatrical, Muhammad Ali-esque bouts of insult and braggadocio. For these outsize personalities, the sideshow was the show. "Billie has often spoken of tennis as entertainment as well as a sport," says Holly Hunter, who plays King and starred in Cheerleader. "That aspect of the story was really well served by Jane's satirical style...
...this vast conspiracy of his feverish imaginings. Like Don Quixote, with Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.) as his faithful Sancho Panza, McCain is tilting at windmills. His crusade, which has managed to fire up op-ed pages and college students across the country, is nothing more than a sideshow, a distraction from the real battles over the size of government and our nation’s place in the world...
...suspect that's how most Americans regarded the situation in Florida. As a carnival sideshow to their lives. Interesting, yes; amusing, sometimes; but mostly irrelevant...
Compared with the lawyers' arguments about itty-bitty paper dots and the pleadings of grandmothers in tracksuits for a revote, the news coming out of tiny Seminole County has seemed like a strange little sideshow, barely worth noticing. But now both candidates are realizing that the sideshow could potentially decide the election. A lawsuit--filed not by Al Gore but by an Altamonte Springs personal-injury lawyer--demands that the county throw out some 15,000 absentee ballots because of alleged fraud. That would give Gore a net gain of about 5,000 votes, more than enough...
...This drove home to him the seriousness, the stakes of this business that we're in. It changed him inside. Afterward, he was more steady, rooted, surefooted in his understanding of where the American people are. Yes, he made personal mistakes, but those in some way have been a sideshow to the main current of his public leadership, and the approval ratings show that...