Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From this point on, Vizinczey's entertaining display of granted wishes takes a peculiar turn. He writes: "Perhaps nothing about Mark Niven's life is of such general significance as the way he lost his fortune." The ominous shadow of a moral descends over the proceedings. Mark must contend with a confiscatory Bahamian government, which demands half of his take before he even recovers it. Then other sharks start circling: an unscrupulous Manhattan art dealer named John Vallantine, who decides to relieve Mark of his remaining $150 million, and corrupt lawyers in the U.S. who gather to pick...
...initials announce that the miscreants have been driving under the influence. County Judges Frederick De Furia and Becky Titus began pasting drunk drivers with the stickers two weeks ago. During the six-month period of the sentence, offenders are permitted to drive only for work purposes. Most ordered to display scarlet bumpers have done so. But several have appealed, arguing that the judges have exceeded their sentencing authority. "We've lost our sense of shame in this country," responds Judge Titus, "and humiliation as punishment is valid." The Puritans would have applauded...
...fact that death was involved in each: thousands killed in a cyclone in Bangladesh, 38 by a flood of Liverpool fans at a soccer match in Belgium. It was not the casualty count alone that was stunning nor even, in the case of the soccer match, the display of what amounted to mass murder in the context of a game. What the world saw in Bangladesh and Belgium was nature out of control -- external nature in one place, human nature in the other. One ought to be used to such sights by now. Yet a peculiar terror rises...
Harvard's best singers and musicians will be on display at the Loeb Experimental Theater tonight entertaining alumni, seniors and their parents at a special fund-raising cabaret...
...games and the field trips they attend while their parents are off at their planned events. In fact, even the traditional aprons for the wives of the Harvard alumni which have been provided in previous years have been omitted (ending what some might call an outrageous display of sexism...