Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...window display appears to hit a new peak each Christmas. Nowadays the best windows are as craftily arranged and lighted, and almost as convincing, as scenes from a play. "It could be great art," one of the best of its practitioners insisted last week. "It ain't, but it could be. I look forward to the day when we'll have nothing but display on the main floor. Then we can really create atmosphere, using everything-fire, water, why, we could even blow up a hurricane...
Moore once wanted to be a portrait painter, but not any more. Says he: "I may have a tiny soul, but window display is soul-satisfying...
Widener Library has two new exhibits on display in its lobby...
...half of them from a Scottish court. The other half, which had been awarded to the heirs of Boswell's granddaughter, he bought. Meanwhile, Malahide had yielded yet another batch-a cache as large as the first. Last week in Manhattan, Colonel Isham placed his latest acquisitions on display...
Director Robert Wise has avoided much of the flavor of hokum by handling his gunplay as if it were something really necessary, rather than a Fourth of July display. His actors use horses because they seem to want to get somewhere; they come out of brawls looking mussed. Even Walter Brennan, a master of easy tearjerking, plays this one fairly straight...