Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good old stories have been worn down worse than river rocks. The oilman who re-created an entire Neiman-Marcus window display-gowns, gems, furs and all-in his living room one Christmas morn because his wife had said she had seen something in the window she wanted. The fellow who told LIFE magazine that he bought a Rolls-Royce because its powder-blue paint job matched his wife's favorite hat. Then there was H.L. Hunt, who, a Dallas editor once said, "would be the most dangerous man in America if he wasn't such a damn...
...Other Dallas" (CBS), "The Hidden Dallas" (NBC) and "The Dallas the Republicans Don't Want You to See" (ABC). Poverty in the black sections of South Dallas would be revealed. Cases of provincialism would be found among the rich. One bit would be shot at Southfork to display "who has been helped by Reaganomics." In short, every boil the city imagines it possesses would be lanced in prime time...
...that Sears kneads, reads, tries to listen to, examines, interprets. Through one of the largest systems of IBM computers outside the U.S. Government, the company keeps track of what is.being bought and where. Each morning just after 7, Merchandise's Brennan enters his office and calls up a display on his computer terminal that can tell him the dollar volume of all Sears stores the previous day. He can also look at sales figures by region, specific store or product line...
Careful readers of the Communist press were treated last week to a rare public airing of differences between the Soviet Union and some of its East European satellites. The display was all the more remarkable because it involved East Germany, which for 35 years has been one of Moscow's most loyal allies...
Taking a hint from their Broadway brethren, London impresarios have stocked their theaters with musicals. There currently are 19 on display, ranging from ripe chestnuts like The Boy Friend and West Side Story to such instant-nostalgia items as Peg (a new show based on the 1912 J. Hartley Manners comedy) and Singin' in the Rain (with aging sprite Tommy Steele in the Gene Kelly role). The big noise, though, comes from two dueling musicals. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyricist Tim Rice, once the Midas men of British songwriting with the shows Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph...