Word: display
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry's most ambitious promotion in history, the big automakers had spread through three floors of the Coliseum an $11,250,000 display of 124 different new cars, 66 trucks and buses, plus scores of sequined nymphs to decorate them, and a half-hour musical review (title: America on the Move) that ran six times a day. Among the show stoppers: the high-priced cars that will go into limited production this year-Cadillac's $12,500 Eldorado Brougham (output restricted to 1,000 the first year), Pontiac's convertible Bonneville Special (only...
...freshman swimming team yesterday smashed Huntington School for Boys in a display of power, winning 50-27. It was the squad's first meet...
...second time. Russia's remarkable distance machine Vladimir Kuts, a 29-year-old navy lieutenant or an army captain-depending on which Russian a foreigner talks to-gave the crowd a great display of distance running, and the band an excuse to play Soyuz Nerushimy (Union Indissoluble). After outrunning and outsmarting Britain's Gordon Pirie in a 10,000-meter demonstration of brilliantly employed endurance. Kuts came back five days later to do it all over again in the equally demanding 5,000-meter race...
...first hearing. The love story of Bells Are Ringing is almost defiantly orthodox, but suffused as it is with Judy's warmth, never really becomes a burden. But it does bulk much too large for wit to keep pace with sentiment, for the Comden-Green book to display the usual fresh, crisp Comden-Greenness...
Reproduction it certainly was. Said James J. Rorimer, director of the Metropolitan: "It is not oil painting, granted, but it is a magnificent display of color and design. I don't see how anyone can help being overpowered by it. Of course, if art is nothing but oil paintings, then let's throw away our slides, picture books, and save art only for those who can afford to travel all over Europe...