"As people with disabilities work to reclaim sideshows and identities like 'freak,' modern sideshows become important sites for the development and proliferation of disability culture," she added.
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Coverage of the convention, however, focused on the nutty sideshows.
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But what museums should not do is become circus sideshows.
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But these are relative sideshows in a broader regional game.
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The real take-aways from this year's event were the sideshows.
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The old-fashioned circus is going the way of sideshows, right?
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At night, they slept in tents and were entertained with sideshows.
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Compared with the economy and immigration, most other concerns have been sideshows.
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Nurmagomedov is primed for main events, not just sideshows with dollies and broken glass.
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Yet Trump is, as ever, getting pulled into sideshows away from the main event.
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All these small sideshows distracted from the traditional issues, if even for a moment.
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Sideshows and circuses are my main gig, so most people think they're pretty rad.
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From the book: There was a big tent with the usual sideshows as well.
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Dramatic as some of these outcomes have been, they've all been sideshows to one primary lawsuit.
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His production of "Così" is set in a Coney Island-like seaside, among sideshows and carnies.
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Wilson told David Letterman in 1982 that he was always attracted to circus sideshows and freaks.
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Was Martin interested in pharaonic attire as he might have seen it in movies, sideshows and museums?
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Still, he keeps coming back, albeit in fights that are considered more sideshows rather than legitimate challenges.
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"We are laser-focused and won't be distracted by sideshows," added one GOP lawmaker close to leadership.
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Bus tours through the favelas in Brazil or excursions that turn Indigenous communities into sideshows are gross.
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MMA, a sport that's already accommodated CM Punk and Jose Canseco, has a high tolerance for sideshows.
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Our social media streams are full of personality-based sideshows that are good for ratings and clicks.
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Uncertainty remains surrounding the final guest list, but the potential for fireworks and sideshows is very real.
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His camera treats them neither as gods nor sideshows, but as people who are grappling with faith.
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And all those sideshows that the senator wants to bring up have nothing to do with that.
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Later, he took the show on the road, touring the world with his famous circus and sideshows.
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The mayor, a Democrat, has had his share of stumbles and political sideshows, often of his own making.
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Fontaine narrates scenes from the hospital, then cuts to the circus, then cuts to historical sideshows for context.
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We're not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers.
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Investors typically dismiss political gyrations as sideshows that might cause temporary market turmoil but with little long-term impact.
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By May, the regular season's sideshows and novelties have faded, replaced by the high-stakes drama of the playoffs.
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"The tawdry orca sideshows and despicable spying tactics are sinking SeaWorld's ship," said Tracy Reiman, PETA's executive vice president.
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For now, these issues remain obscured by Trump's fondness for sideshows and his sordid promotion of the family business.
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In other words, a character perfect for our so-called reality era, when circus sideshows become the main act.
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But these awards sideshows can affect careers, and they have clearly become another battleground in the continuing culture wars.
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He revisits the circuses and sideshows of his Manhattan youth with all the scruples of the older Henry James.
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Decrying what it called "social media sideshows and carnival clatter," the Review-Journal heralded Trump's outsider status and corporate experience.
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" The complicated place sideshows hold in disability history filters all the way down to the usage of the word "freak.
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But a series of Trump sideshows have consumed Capitol Hill ever since he took the oath of office on Jan. 20.
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To two men once dismissed as sideshows but who seized on the fury of grassroots voters to screw with the conventional wisdom.
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While in town, he reached out to a man named Ward Hall who had founded one of the last surviving traveling sideshows.
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Our nation's elected officials, including the president, must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan sideshows.
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Today, the Coney Island Circus Sideshow, affiliated with the school, is one of the last sideshows of its kind in the United States.
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In terms of the numbers involved, the white nationalist-antifa collisions have been sideshows compared with the Women's March and its various imitators.
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But that decision and the efforts toward a ZTE deal were just sideshows as Trump marched toward the wider trade war with China.
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Although circus sideshows have been traded for reality TV shows, the mockery of fat people — especially fat women — has not lessened over the years.
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"More and more people are realizing that they shouldn't be distracted by the sideshows that result from clever Democratic baiting of Trump," he added.
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For Tickets, photographer Hunter Barnes went on the road with the World of Wonders, one of the last traveling sideshows in the United States.
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As I believe that that for all the sideshows of the political season, Americans are still hungry for truth, it's just hard to find.
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Still, we're all wild about Powerball but there are plenty of strange sideshows to keep an eye on before the balls drop on Wednesday night.
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Camille A. Brown's choreography draws as much attention to bodies as it does to voices—dance numbers are not sideshows but, rather, attempts at articulation.
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That's been the case often on the presidential campaign trail this year, with candidates' advocates sometimes creating sideshows campaigns have to rush to squelch. Sen.
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Voters should ignore all the sideshows and make their decisions with their pocketbooks in mind because their dollars are truly on the ballot this year.
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During the 19th century, sideshows offered one of the few opportunities for people with disabilities and other physical abnormalities to find employment and avoid institutionalization.
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In the past, Trump's tricks and his denials were, for the most part, amusing sideshows in the carnival that is daily life in New York City.
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Yet, as officials from both Uber and Lyft emphasized in speaking with me, America's largest cities could be mere sideshows compared to smaller towns and suburbs.
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They thought cultural grievances about issues like immigration were sideshows, and they appealed to those sentiments while really pushing on the issues that mattered to them.
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Given the strains currently affecting the world, the panels on the official theme of "Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution" could prove to be little more than sideshows.
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Over the last nine months, Mr. Trump's attacks on Ms. Kelly (and on Fox News) have been one of the more intriguing sideshows of the presidential campaign.
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The pandemic dominated the debate, both taking up the most time of any single issue and making discussions of other policy areas seem kind of like sideshows.
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They are largely veterans of burlesque and sideshow presentations at Sideshows by the Seashore on Surf Avenue in Coney Island and are now getting their Met debut.
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Even now, with the primaries and caucuses over and each party's presumptive presidential nominee chosen, ridiculous sideshows compete for attention and the campaigns keep veering toward pointlessness.
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Those musical interludes and the vignettes from the playwrights made clear that the strength of Broadway is always what's happening on the stage, not the tacky sideshows.
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"Our nation's elected officials, including the president, must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan sideshows," McCain said in a statement.
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Diane had a talent for friendship, and she maintained long-term connections with all sorts of people — eccentrics in rooming houses, freaks in sideshows, socialites on Park Avenue.
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Health care costs and the entire Obamacare repeal debate are just sideshows in poorer parts of this country that need an entire economic makeover, not an insurance battle.
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"Our nation's elected officials, including the president, must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan sideshows," he said in a statement.
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Natural borns, according to her, are like the Beyoncés of the sideshow—people born with physical anomalies that, in the traveling sideshows of yesteryear, rendered them curious spectacles.
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"Our nation's elected officials, including the President, must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan sideshows," McCain said in a statement.
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" Those congressional sideshows became fountains of anti-Muslim disinformation, where King made the risible claim that "80% of the mosques in this country are controlled by radical imams.
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Critics complained about its crassness and cruelty, but Mr. Barris, like purveyors of burlesque and circus sideshows in earlier generations, knew there was a large audience for lowbrow.
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"Sideshows set the stage for modern conceptions of disability — identifying people with disabilities as objects of scorn and pity, as inherently 'other' from mainstream society," she told me.
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The Marlins have even turned failsafe endeavors―like, employing one of the best young pitchers, or locking up their franchise player to a lucrative long-term contract―into sideshows.
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"I see the reason Republicans are nervous about this, but it's largely a sideshow, and sometimes sideshows serve a purpose," said Feehery, who is also a columnist for The Hill.
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To most of us, sideshows are shadowy things,outdated remnants that we may have only experienced through American Horror Story: Freak Show or that one episode of The X-Files.
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Major events, even deaths, get tossed away, while tiny sideshows—like a fracas between Paul's girlfriend, Esther (Lou Roy-Lecollinet), and the mother of a pal—are revealed in full.
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But the difference between those sideshows and the bout on Saturday is that McGregor is a world-class athlete who is deadly serious about beating Mayweather at his own game.
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It's one of the few remaining sideshows in America, where you can still be dazzled by a fire breather, spooked by a snake charmer or shocked by the human blockhead.
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Physicians in the United States scoffed at the concept and, for years, babies in incubators were literally seen only in carnival sideshows between the bearded lady and the tattooed man.
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Okay, after the break, we talk to Miriam Elder about the married lawyers/Trump defender/Rudy Giuliani helpers in Ukraine who are leading one of the impeachment story's weirdest sideshows.
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The move, voted for by her fellow members of the European Parliament, is just the latest development in a tumultuous presidential race more notable for legal sideshows than policy debates.
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Even during the span of this writer's childhood, games at Shea Stadium, Citifield, and the old Yankee Stadium got louder with more distractions and sideshows in case fans were getting bored.
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Washington in the past week put on one of the biggest sideshows yet over the president's firing of FBI Director James Comey, who was investigating the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
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His other paintings (much smaller) seem determined to convince us that he is primarily a painter who concerns himself with the slipperiness of human identity, that most fashionable of current sideshows.
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After a fraught campaign that tested the country's tolerance for political sideshows, Roy S. Moore, the party's Senate nominee, lost to the Democrat Doug Jones in a special election on Tuesday.
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Among the most jarring sideshows of the war is the presence of dozens of Western fighters who have volunteered with the Kurdish-led force in northern Syria, as well as in Iraq.
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While audiences supposedly came for the trapeze artists and lions, they were at least as eager to see the oddities of the sideshows — the tents and stages arrayed beside the big top.
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However, even though sideshows were exploitive, they were spaces where people with disabilities, like famed [conjoined] performers Chang and Eng, began to assert their worth and curate how individuals looked at them.
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And even if these are just sideshows until the big showdown, perhaps the added depth and nuance will do the near-impossible: make those inevitable, inescapable character deaths actually mean something again. -Nick
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The sideshows included a dude on a Zapata flying board, another person descending from an army helicopter, and a deafening, dazzling flyover from la Patrouille de France, the French Air Force's elite aerobatics crew.
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In other words, there is nothing on Vogel's résumé that occurred in any other country than the one that claims to have invented the game and most of the sideshows that go with it.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Coney Island has a history as dizzying as any of the roller coasters, carousels, sideshows, and other frenetic attractions that have operated on its piece of Brooklyn shore.
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I am what's known in sideshow parlance as a "natural born" — a person born with a physical abnormality on my left hand that, in the heyday of sideshows, might have made me a star.
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But I've been photographing these parades trying to find smaller moments that don't fit the overarching narrative quite as well — the sideshows, the breaks at the end of the performance, the tiny slip-ups.
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Given those strains, the official Davos theme this time — "Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution" — may sound oddly out of tune, and the various panels on the topic could prove to be little more than sideshows.
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When I am on the pitch, I'm a football player and it was just unthinkable to me that I had to deal with all these sideshows instead of playing the game and representing my country.
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But they also want him to stop with the sideshows, silly distractions and the useless wars with the media that undermine his credibility and open him up to questions about his temperament to be president.
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Until now, the Moore campaign has believed that Alabama's brand of glittery sideshows would, sooner or later, summon Mr. Trump's inner showman and that he would sweep in to push Mr. Moore over the top.
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The tension at times was cut by some of the trial's sideshows, such as the sight of Guzman and his wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, showing up in matching burgundy velvet blazers in a gesture of solidarity.
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Kathleen Williams, who has been crisscrossing Montana in her camper with her dog, is poised to knock off Gianforte with an old-fashioned campaign that should be a model for Dems mired in media-driven sideshows.
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That's especially evident when lawmakers can't agree upon what's wrong in the first place, and many seem intent on focusing on political agendas and headline-making sideshows instead of drilling down on the issues that matter.
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And while it's "tempting to latch on to the idea that the adults have, at last, taken charge," Americans who have grown weary of the "parade of carnival sideshows" will get no rest with this administration.
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Competing for attention with Mr. Trump's substantive policy moves was a chaotic array of sideshows like fights over the size of his inaugural crowd and his false claim that illegal voters cost him the popular vote.
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Some of you will see this as a clear sign of progress, of a league getting the silly and often dangerous sideshows out of the sport and letting the actual game take center stage for a change.
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And while this gathering has been marred by unfortunate sideshows of violence in the past (including some incidents this year), it's important not to lose sight of what it's really about: a celebration of culture and heritage.
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But there are enough real and current threats in the field of artificial intelligence — from bias in the algorithms handing out prison sentences to AI-powered surveillance states — to make these hypothetical problems seem like indulgent sideshows.
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The show features a cast of sideshows including DJ Durst, played by Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, whose role in the early 24s as a pop-culture figurehead young people would emulate mirrors the atmosphere of M2325M.
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"In my view any candidates, or for that matter folks in the press who want to go down rabbit trails and circus sideshows are distracting from the real issues the American people are focused on," he said.
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It highlights women who capitalized off the culture by realizing it as a means of independence, tattooing their entire bodies and joining sideshows to make a living and also those women of high society whose tattoos remained hidden.
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At that time, the American people's elected officials and Congress as an institution were largely treated as sideshows, a legislative body of government to be ignored instead of the co-equal and independent branch of government it really is.
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As has been shown less than a week removed from the death of ten people on a north Toronto street, it is important to view conspiracies not just as funny sideshows, but also as legitimate tools to push agendas.
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Sideshows by the Seashore, which has hosted famous acts such as Insectivora "The World's Most Partially Illustrated Woman," the Lizardman, and Serpentina the snake charmer, was launched in 1985, five years after the nonprofit Coney Island USA was founded.
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Their white skin and black features gave them an exotic appearance that the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" exploited by having them pretend to be cannibals, sheep-headed "freaks," and "Ambassadors from Mars" in sideshows.
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Her debut work of poems dives deep into the psyches of historical black figures, including Saartjie Baartman, an African woman known as "the Venus Hottentot" who was exhibited at carnival sideshows in London and Paris before she died at 25.
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Secular and religious people alike must be aware that moral arguments — whether or not they involve religious tropes — are not just political sideshows but rather can determine the outcomes of the most important policy decisions of this or any time.
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An orderly and intellectually honest process means lawmakers, and the American people, should focus on the facts bearing on any potential wrongdoing by the individual who is the subject of the impeachment process, not sideshows attacking the integrity of particularly damaging witnesses.
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And all the sideshows, intentional or not, left the news media scrambling to keep up, buzzing from flare-up to flare-up in a week in which Mr. Trump also told The New York Times that he might decide not to defend some NATO allies.
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Coming Back From A Dark HistoryPeople's faith in hypnosis as a clinically useful treatment has ebbed and flowed over the years, in part because of hypnosis' associations with sideshows and other New Age pseudo-treatments — like healing crystals, hypnosis even has some occult associations.
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Opera and sideshows might seem on far ends of the cultural spectrum, but the non-sideshow performers "appreciate learning from their talents, even if it's sword-swallowing, fire-breathing or handling a boa constrictor," said Mr. Walker, who is 4 feet 6 inches tall.
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And why on Earth we cannot allow, and why the members of the Congress of the United States to continue so that we can find out what has happened here ... there's plenty of time when Mueller is finished to look at all these sideshows.
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So let's do a quick review of recent developments in Washington and then consider a question that has yet to get a thorough airing in the coverage of the Russia investigation and its attendant sideshows: What would happen to the investigation if Mueller were to be fired?
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"That should be part of the conversation of a presidential damn campaign, not some of these sideshows, tweet by tweet, as we're going this zigzag to all these things that, frankly, are a little more trivial to me than the issues of life and death," he said.
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He lost his virginity in St. Louis, gained a nose for the pungent burnt rubber smell of sideshows during his summers in Sacramento, and lived in rural Kansas, where, from his seat on the Greyhound, he relished the sight of abandoned homes and flaxen, endless plains.
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Decades of involvement in such sideshows has diverted resources from preparing for the sort of conflicts which could threaten America's existence and only be confronted by the U.S. Russia is a declining power unlikely to reemerge as a global presence, but China could become a genuine peer competitor to Washington.
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A short story can be written on the bottle, but for a novel you need the mental speed that enables you to keep the whole pattern inside your head and ruthlessly sacrifice the sideshows … I would give anything if I hadn't written Part III of Tender Is the Night entirely on stimulant.
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In addition to signing 15 executive orders, Trump also indulged his usual Twitter mania and election obsessions: The sideshows included: Trump claiming the photos of the inauguration crowd were false, boasting that he had the most-watched presidential inauguration and even reaching out to the National Parks Service for photos to prove it.
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But the mayor's visit to the Chelsea neighborhood, his second in three days, also offered him an opportunity to illustrate a guiding philosophy of his mayoralty: Demonstrating leadership in times of crisis — combined with a focus on signature accomplishments — will transcend the constant barrage of minor crises and political sideshows that buffet every administration.
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The book skips merrily from topic to ghoulish topic, exploring the mechanics of those Coney Island death traps; peering at the lurid attractions of the sideshows of old; weaving a story about Victorian hair art; poking away at humanity's curious impulse to "play dead;" and delving into the emotional intricacies of collecting other people's mourning objects.
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Believe me when I say this list is only a small part of what can be found in the books, magazines, posters, postcards, photographs, newspaper articles, drawings, masks, objects, diaries, and charts housed in the collection, with topics that run the gamut from scientists and experiments to magicians and sideshows, making every conceivable stop along the way.
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"Americans really, I think, you know, are ready to move on and talk about actual policies, have productive conversations that are going to, you know, make life better for Americans, instead of continuing these political sideshows that, sure, are entertaining, but I don't think are flattering," Bolar, a senior writer and producer for the Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal, told Hill.
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Special Report: Rolex Australian Grand Prix If Formula One sometimes falls short on the entertainment value of its main event — a Grand Prix race that lasts roughly an hour and a half and is run on a Sunday — it has long excelled at making its off-the-track sideshows, often involving politics, paddock life or gossip, among the most entertaining in sports.
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But in the form in which "Flight" was presented on Sunday — the printed program called it both a "world premiere" and a "work-in-process" — the succession of recorded voice-overs, archival images and scratchy string-quartet interventions held all the appeal of those educational sideshows you find in museums, which you submit to just for the chance to sit in a dark room and rest.
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The Chinese version used by acrobats features two or more poles, and the acrobats perform tricks while leaping from pole to pole, like this:In the US, pole dancing acts were common in circuses and sideshows during the 1920s, but it's generally accepted that the apparatus didn't make it into actual strip clubs until 1968, when a woman named Belle Jangles took to the pole at the Mugwump Strip Club in Oregon.
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DAVID ALLEN Review: As James Levine Sues, the Met Opera Opens a New 'Così' From Coney Island Sideshows to an Operatic Debut at the Met An Opera Diva and a Broadway Star Trade Places, and Advice at 383 minute 238 seconds While saluting the young cast of the Met's "Così," I'll join David in celebrating a recording of the opera from the past: an exquisitely urgent, blooming rendition of "È amore un ladroncello" by the mezzo-soprano Tatiana Troyanos.
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Here's what Dixon said... -- BTW: Dixon's points relate to what Ben Sasse said on "SOTU" Sunday morning... Read more of Sunday's Reliable Sources newsletter... And subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox... Bruni on "Trump's Perverse Advantage" Brian Lowry emails: The second half of "Reliable Sources" — specifically, the Bernstein and Tim Dixon interviews — dovetailed pretty nicely with Frank Bruni's latest NYT column, which asked members of the media to provide more context and substance and resist the temptation to cover the "saucier" sideshows of the Trump presidency.
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