Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antiques bazaar, where everything from Rembrandts to 1950s Dior dresses can be had for a price. But New York is coming on fast. When the 24th Annual Winter Antiques Show opened at Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, crowds bundled against the winter chill lined up to see the dazzling array of wares laid out by 67 American dealers. Among the treasures were English Chippendale chairs, Queen Anne silver, Shaker cabinets and a handsome pair of Gilbert Stuart portraits. A few blocks away an enthusiastic crowd milled through the showrooms of Sotheby Parke Bernet to preview a 1,400-lot collection...
...awesome possibilities of aerial espionage when a U-2 spy plane was brought down over the Soviet Union in 1960, and its pilot, Francis Gary Powers, was put on trial and jailed for two years. Since then the U-2 has been supplemented by an ever expanding array of observation satellites and eavesdropping devices. As a senior member of the National Security Council puts it, "The agency is best when there's something very specific that you want to know, preferably a question that can be answered with numbers, or, if not with numbers, then at least with nouns...
Against this awesome-looking array Harvard is not totally defenseless, however. On the field event squad it boasts Hasan Kayali, the Turkish-born jumper who has gone undefeated in the high and triple jumps in the three meets Harvard has swept this season. As a competitor, Kayali is a master of the art of one-upmanship. During the Boston College meet, in the long jump, BC jumper Amjad Ghori leaped the prodigious distance of 22' 10". From the reaction of the BC fans it was obvious that Ghori had just jumped the longest distance of his life, apparently sewing...
Along the road to the big time, Emilia plunges into a short-lived affair with Yuri (Baryshnikov), the rakish Russian who is the crowning jewel of the company's impressive array of dancers. Yuri and Emilia consummate the relationship in one of the best scenes of The Turning Point; shot in deep blues and purples, the lovemaking is accompanied by ballet music, and appropriately enough, Emilia marks their climax with a ballet gesture, forming a graceful arch with her outstretched arms...
...been backed onto the stage unknowing, while the crowd roared. The obvious solution to this was the BBC, which sucks talent like bits of fluff into that big white building, where it's safe forever. But I had my tattered pride. In fact, my whole array of virtues was intact; only the man behind them was missing. I didn't really give a damn anymore whether I was English or American, but the U.S. was still the prairie of record, the place where the garbled soul of Chatworth could re-create itself. Or failing that, become famous...