Word: displays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States pavilion is characterized by spaciousness. From the exterior it is a round structure fronted by an attractive display of fountains, trees, and American flags...
...soft-sell" in presenting the American way of life is evidenced in the main floor exhibit entitled Face of America. Here are such typical trivia of American life as a page-by-page display of a Sunday Times, a football uniform, a showcase filled with election buttons, and a section of California redwood...
...exhibits, however, fell victime to the charges that they were not typical of everyday America. There was concern lest visitors thought that every American child played with the elaborate modern toys on display. One filmstrip on life in these United States included a housewife flying her plane to the grocery. And people who do not care for modern art protested that the exhibit of contemporary paintings and sculpture was unrepresentative...
...House Harold has mounted a picture of Dover Beach--clipped from an insurance ad--on the laundry cardboard from his button-down shirts.) Occasionally he wanders to the river, looking for dandelions--the univer- sal symbol of simple innocence and purity. More often he stands before the plate-glass display or Cardullo's--with a libidinous twitch at the Italian sausage...
...display last week, Avery's sudden end-of-the-summer spurt made a glowing show. Hot Moon hung in the August sky like a ball of orange light that cast an orange sheen over the magenta sea; Sail shows a ghostly boat slipping silently through a sea of rapid blue and white strokes. "When people ask me how long it took," Avery explained. "I say 30 years. That's how long the preparation took...