Word: displays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day, a military parade to celebrate the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem went off without a missed beat, its resplendent display watched by Saigonese who lined the streets around Unity Square. First came a crack Vietnamese drill team, and overhead a flyby of jets, transports and helicopters. Then a combined honor guard of Thais, South Koreans, Nationalist Chinese, Filipinos, New Zealanders, Australians and Americans marched past, followed by combat troops and a 56-piece Korean army band. Finally the heavy equipment rolled out, from clanking M41 tanks to giant earth movers...
...franchised department stores across the country are keeping Little Brother under wraps. Manhattan's Bloomingdale's doesn't stock the doll, will fill mail orders only. Denver's MayD & F and Cleveland's Higbee's have taken the doll off display, although so many customers have come in asking for it that both stores have had to reorder. With various pediatricians and child psychologists coming to the defense of Little Brother as a perfectly natural play doll "unless adult reaction makes it unnatural play," Creative Playthings is now seriously considering giving Little Brother...
...death, Vincent Van Gogh still remains a startlingly modern artist. Psychologists continue to delight in analyzing the psychoses betrayed by his tormented whorls. Lovers of abstract expressionism find in his sulfurous palette a close relationship with Pollock and De Kooning. Yet, as is made clear by a lively display of 90 Van Gogh watercolors and drawings (see color opposite) that go on view this month at Philadelphia's Museum of Art, Van Gogh was in more than one major respect a 19th century man. While today's painters see their paintings as objects in themselves and delight...
...produced 800 oils and an even larger number of preliminary drawings and watercolors. The process of distilling the essence of dozens of sketches into one painting "was something like an electric discharge," says Vincent W. Van Gogh, his nephew and chairman of the foundation from whose collection the current display was assembled. "That's why in Provence he could very often complete a large painting in a single...
...together. Perhaps as a unification device, Schlesinger again hauls out his Darling trick of beginning the dialogue of the next scene while still presenting a first one. No scene is presented at any great length, except the the key one in which Stamp wins Miss Christie with a flashing display of sword exercises on a sweeping Dorset Hill...