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...WORLD is a circus ring. Archibald MacLeish's brilliant verse flows from the lips of two metaphysical actors who, perched high upon some ethereal stage, create their own sideshow, transforming one man's life into a carnival of anguish and despair. And all to prove a point. As they banter and rage, their tedious argument of insidious intent leads to an over-whelming question, the ultimate question...
...shrugs off any glorification of his approach, or his mastery of the Woodstein technique. "Investigative reporting is a stupid term," he says definitively. "Decent reporting is by definition investigative." For Shawcross, Sideshow was an extension of his earlier days on the Times' insight team...
...essentially British Shawcross adopted the United States, and his experience with Sideshow hardened an already-suspicious nature. Disturbed by President Carter's recent call for increased CIA activities, he declared that the Freedom of Information Act--the lifeblood of his work--must be broadened. Angered by the Supreme Court's decision to keep Kissinger's memoirs under wraps in the sacred tombs of the Library of Congress, he hopes that other people will do for the rest of Kissinger's work what he did for Cambodia...
...times, there was none of the emotion that the crowd had come to see. Shawcross read whole passages, compared them to others and concluded that Kissinger doesn't always tell the truth. Kissinger, his speech told us, is a target it will take more than one Sideshow to uncover. Shawcross realizes this and he goes about his task ponderously, like a coach looking at the films, shaking his head and stopping at every frame to find out where the mistake was made. He shudders when he talks about former President Gerald R. Ford's promise that Kissinger would be secretary...
...long articles on the current situation in Cambodia for The Post; "it's hard to walk away from Cambodia," he admits. But the endless work, he adds quickly, is never boring, only depressing. "Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime," Shawcross writes at the end of Sideshow. "If the world is diminished by the experience," as Shawcross's last sentence tells us, the author's world--and ours--was opened wide...