Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...child to private school. The measure, which will be on California's November ballot, is likely to spark the most heated and expensive proposition campaign in the U.S., with vigorous opposition from Governor Gray Davis, the California Teachers Association, PTAs and groups such as the California Business Roundtable. The sideshow could influence the presidential race in the most golden state of all, inciting greater Democratic turnout to fight the measure. Voucher advocates may try to persuade George W. Bush to endorse it--and risk alienating moderates...
...what makes Boston relatively uninteresting is the lack of what I call the sideshow effect. When you're sitting in the stands at Fenway, you can talk about how good Nomar and Pedro for a couple of innings, and reminisce over who took who over the Green Monster a few years back for a couple more. But by the time you've gotten to the seventh-inning stretch, there really isn't much...
...women's boxing, partly because of its paucity of A-list fighters. "It's natural for a young sport," says CNN/SI boxing analyst Steve Farhood. "But the thin talent pool prohibits consistent, well-matched bouts." More to the point, says Vitiello, "promoters still see women as a sideshow. There is talent out there. But to get air time, you have to be a Playboy bunny or have a famous name...
...SIDESHOW Josh and his chimp Tarzan, street performers near Harrah's casino...
...presidency. He considered enlisting in the army. He contemplated a career in opera. Even after he went for politics, friends say they expected him to be a thinktank policy guru or a professor of political science--a job Keyes says he may eventually consider--rather than a presidential sideshow. Die-hard Keyes supporters--as such people always do--have an intricate, domino theory detailing a Keyes win: Bauer, Hatch and Forbes will drop out, and their supporters will turn to Keyes to form a solid conservative block. Then, once Bush's supporters see a conservative candidate with a substantial following...