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  • From the sideshow's own website: Celebrate the wonder of the human form.

    Sound Politics: Harvest Of Shame 2007

  • Bearded ladies, wolf boys, giants: in the sideshow's heyday, their physical differences made them objects of fascination, gawked and giggled at.

    NYT > Home Page By ANDREA THOMPSON 2011

  • And while industry types like Zaitshik think Obama's comments were unfair, the sideshow's artistic director Dick Zigun sees the positive side.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The great set piece is a nighttime carnival sequence in which Joyce, lost and afraid, wanders among the tents and encounters a sideshow's worth of familiar carnie types: the Alligator Man, the Mule-Faced Woman, the Midget Monkey Girl, the Human Blockhead, with the inevitable noggin full of nails.

    Cinematical Dawn Taylor 2010

  • The great set piece is a nighttime carnival sequence in which Joyce, lost and afraid, wanders among the tents and encounters a sideshow's worth of familiar carnie types: the Alligator Man, the Mule-Faced Woman, the Midget Monkey Girl, the Human Blockhead, with the inevitable noggin full of nails.

    Cinematical Dawn Taylor 2010

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