Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...store's merchandise, however, is not limited to condoms. It boasts an array of erotic games--"Pin the Boobs on the Babe," and "Pin the Macho on the Man," for instance--clothing, instruction manuals, vibrators and a large selection of lubricants...
...most Muscovites, the city's budding consumer culture has produced nothing but frustration. While shopping for goodies for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday, consumers encountered shops in the capital filled with a dazzling array of hitherto unknown products, from kiwi fruit to Tabasco sauce. The trouble is, prices are so high that the minimum monthly wage of about 15,000 rubles does not even cover the cost of a kilogram of high-quality smoked salami, which sells for more than 16,000 rubles in one downtown Moscow gastronom store...
...congressional report released last week, is just the latest in a series of disclosures from the early days of the atomic age, when the government often learned about the effects of radiation the quick and dirty way -- by exposing unsuspecting civilians. Over the past month, a frightening array of nuclear experiments have come to light, including large-scale medical tests involving hundreds of patients. A series published in the Albuquerque Tribune detailed one experiment in which 18 people were injected with high concentrations of plutonium, apparently without their full consent. In another test, 800 pregnant women were exposed to radioactive...
...style known as Victorian celebrated the industrial age's lucky few. Never mind that for the masses, conspicuous consumption usually meant an advanced case of tuberculosis. Still, the rich could be both showy and tasteful. Garrett's homage to opulent eclecticism guides us through the layered textures and studied array of objets that . whisper "old money" while at the same time suggesting the mother of all garage sales...
Backing up the two lead adversaries, however, is an assorted array of comically drawn secondary characters. The best of these is Andrew Torrance, who as the male nurse at the Sanatorium is delightfully sane in the midst of chaos. With his mouse Cuthbert, he has some of the funniest moments in the play...