Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flirting with such fantasies is TriBeCa's premier nightclub, Area. Every six weeks the club spends $60,000 and 300 man-hours revamping its interior to promote a new theme. Past themes have included "surburbia," "obelisks," and "passion," all of which entailed major structural changes, bizarre invitations, and display cases complete with live models acting out an aspect of the theme. On Halloween night a masked man attacked a hanging animal carcass with a chainsaw...
...political; that was the question that dominated discussion for more than a half an hour at a recent Undergraduate Council meeting. The eventual answer--an ambivalent "no"--came only after a dazzling display of acrobatic contortions by Harvard's student government...
...each airline on flight-reservation computer terminals. Regional lines use the code that identifies their big brothers. For example, Air Midwest's flight from Wichita to Kansas City is labeled EA, rather than AM, on travel agents' computer screens. That is important because the major carriers' codes get priority display in reservation systems and are therefore booked first...
...episode of HBO's new sitcom 1st & Ten opens with a shot of two comely lasses soaping themselves in a locker-room shower. Their endowments are on full display and duly noted by two football jocks ogling them from the doorway. The casual nudity may be startling to some viewers, especially since it has nothing to do with anything that follows. But for veteran watchers of cable TV series, such obligatory "skin scenes" are old hat. Their purpose is not so much titillation as information. The message: This is cable, folks, not network...
Student Marc Silver said the small group format motivates him to do the homework it takes to be prepared: during tutorial, ignorance as well as knowledge is on display. "Ignorance," he said, "gets depressing after a while...