Word: display
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Whitfield's Mary Pickford: The Woman Who Made the Movies (University Press of Kentucky; 416 pages; $25), in bringing the actress alive on the page. Many of the Brownlow book's photos--evocations of an era that are jaw-droppingly gorgeous in their clarity and power--are now on display at the Motion Picture Academy in Hollywood. A documentary, narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, is headed for video. Like one of her scruffy heroines who find love at the final fadeout, Pickford is back in movie-star style...
...truth of Bush's words was on display all last week in Houston as the birthday celebrations went on with kids and grandkids and friends and entertainers and power seekers from all over the world. Wherever the Bushes congregated, they were rarely in family huddles; but when you watched, they seemed always to be connected--with a gesture, a glance, a joke from the podium, the President laughing at whatever lame jest one of the kids made, Barbara surveying everybody's manners...
...novel and film, which was not good news for one of the fictional folks who had mistreated him when he was helpless. Another unfortunate consequence of Lecter at large became clear last week, when more than 1 1/2 million copies of Harris' Hannibal (Delacorte; 486 pages; $27.95) hit the display shelves in U.S. bookstores...
...deejays have been taking center stage themselves. DJ Rap is a female pioneer. The British singer/deejay's U.S. debut, Learning Curve, combines pop vocals with drum-'n'-bass grooves. A few tracks are a bit dull, but on the single Good to Be Alive her skills are on full display...
...goaltender of his era, Plante could now venture out from his circumscribed piece of ice in front of the Montreal net, there to face down without flinching the bullet shots of the league's best shooters. After Plante, hockey's goalies--virtually all of them masked by 1970--would display a new boldness, a more aggressive posture, a more intimate role in the currents of the game. And more teeth...