Word: sideshows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scandal in which Williams accepted free lodging during five trips to Las Vegas, then lied about doing so. The city council backed Williams over Greenebaum's police commission, but Williams filed a claim against the city for leaking the report, then settled out of court--a shabby little sideshow to the O.J. spectacle...
...even as the number of banks dwindles, new options for customers are opening up. "Electronic banking will make the current wave of mergers seem like a small sideshow," bank analyst Sheshunoff says. Within five years, he predicts, some customers will routinely "surf the Internet for higher yields on deposits and lower interest on loans...
Nothing is more morbidly intriguing, more chillingly compelling than an account of a malfunctioning mind, as medical writers have learned to their great profit. The victims of mental disease or brain damage are fascinating, not simply as exhibits in a neurological sideshow but also as stark demonstrations of how fragile reality can be. Most people agree, within limits, on the objective character of the world around them. Yet while the victims of mental disorders are certainly conscious and aware, their worlds are profoundly different from those of most of us. What can it possibly feel like, we wonder, to live...
...think the key to being more responsible to the students is to get more candidates and better turnout on a house-to-house basis. Creating a circus sideshow with a campus-wide election is only going to make the U.C. more vulnerable to criticism," Reichel added...
Similarly, he said, the issue of domestic violence has been overshad- owed: "While I think that that issue was at theforefront at the start of the trial, it too hasbecome a sideshow...