Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highest offices in the land. Jackson's race for the Democratic nomination, the first serious campaign by a black American, brought countless new voters into the political process, even if their hopes did end in at least partial disillusion. His address to the Democratic Convention last summer, an astonishing display of his rhetorical resources, was one of the memorable speeches of the late 20th century...
...Everything went well until the third race, when the four favorite horses fell at the start, thereby enabling a 91-to-1 long shot named Commodore to romp home as the winner. At that, hundreds of losing bettors swarmed onto the track, trampling over fences and tearing down the display board. After 15 minutes of bedlam, it was announced that the third race was canceled and that all bets would be refunded...
...INSTANT REPLAY. Of all the solitary catches and hits, baskets and goals, the singular sensation of the sporting year was Boston College's 5-ft. 9 3/4-in. Doug Flutie confirming his legend with two seconds and half a field to go. That one pass in a 47-45 fireworks display at Miami is a trophy for Flutie as tangible as a Heisman...
...final element in this year's pageant was a crèche, an assemblage of near life-size figures around a manger scene representing Christ's birth. The display included painted representations of Joseph and Mary, the gift-bearing Magi, two angels and assorted animals-20 pieces in all. It would have been wholly unremarkable, similar to thousands of others, except for one thing: this particular Nativity scene was reappearing in the festival after an enforced and highly controversial absence of eleven years, the hostage in a legal dispute involving the constitutional separation of church and state...
Money made as regal a figure as Jack Nicklaus fling a putter a few weeks back in his alltime display of rapture over an eight-footer, not to win the grand slam, not even to clinch a 20th major championship, but to publicize a condominium development in Arizona at a made-for-TV golf tournament. Ben Hogan would never have wet his pants over such a glory, but there are levels of ego in this. When Bjorn Borg slipped merely to second, ahead of everyone but John McEnroe, Borg had to go. Eleven years removed from his No. 1 rating...