Word: sideshows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what became a sideshow for the public remained a vital issue for the small group of people whose isolation she had broken. "Into the '80s," says Edward Cohen, a Manhattan writer working on a book about modern atheists, "people would hear her speak live or on the air, their mouths would hang open. It reassured them that they weren't the only ones on earth to feel this way." Says Orin ("Spike") Tyson, a friend and employee of O'Hair's who is now living, albeit embattled, in the house on Greystone Drive: "She went out in public and made...
...every four years and draws to it a vast national--even global--audience of observers, analysts and commentators who declaim its significance and decry its flaws. A simultaneous event, the election of the Congress of the United States, arguably the anchor of American democracy, is often treated as a sideshow...
Kemp has the greater burden, but not because he and Dole may be buried in a landslide. In actively courting minority voters--a sideshow wholly separate from Dole's effort--Kemp has set himself against recent Republican history. "All too often in the past," Kemp said not long ago, Republicans have "had that Southern strategy that said we want to go after the white vote and had better not try to get black votes because it might lose those white votes. That is shameful." That it is. But Kemp's stance could cost him dearly in the 2000 primaries, where...
...have used the word work two dozen times in his short speech, which concluded with, "Tomorrow we greet the dawn and begin our work anew"--as if six long months of a nation's listening to Bob Dole's gothic baritone and Clinton's pleading lilt had been a sideshow that ended in one brief act of citizenship. Now the President and the people could return to the course they had agreed upon. Is this what the election was all about...
...Democrats blundered into a series of campaign-finance flaps--prime Perot territory--and Bob Dole made his ill-advised request that Perot leave the race. The attention he had been deprived of because of his exclusion from the debates suddenly rained down upon what had become a nearly irrelevant sideshow. As a result, his support nearly doubled, though by Election Day it had slipped back to under 9%--a long step down from the 19% he garnered in 1992. By making his campaign a vanity production, he succeeded only in muddying his party's future. Says Republican pollster Frank Luntz...