Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan promptly pledged federal disaster relief for the stricken areas, and neighbors of the homeless provided food, clothing and shelter. Unhappily, though, the darker side of human as well as physical nature was on display. Cleanup efforts on Thursday were hindered by traffic jams that backed up two to three miles on either side of the North Carolina-South Carolina border. The cars were packed with families out for some ghoulish sightseeing. -By George J. Church. Reported by Richard Hornik/Boston and JohnE. Yang/Atlanta, with other bureaus
Behind Reagan's orchestration of the congressional praise was the hope that the impressive though imperfect Salvadoran display would rally Senate support for a compromise package of $62 million worth of proposed emergency military aid for El Salvador. Without the funds, insisted Reagan, the 30,000-member Salvadoran army would soon be unable to defend the country against the guerrillas, whose unity is sometimes debatable but whose destructiveness is beyond dispute (see box). The Senate gave tentative approval to the aid, but, chiefly through the efforts of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, a promised formal vote...
...group of men gathered outside a strip joint or porno movie theater, a woman can simply cross the street. Vulgar sexism becomes far more threatening, however, within a close-knit campus, such as Harvard's, precisely because men and women are so closely intermingled--usually in an impressive display of peaceful coexistence. To realize that the same men who "joke" about pig feast may be the guys through the fire door, is to feel suddenly ill at case among what was thought to be a family of sorts. In a moment, it's Harvard as Freshman Mixer all over again...
Family squabbles and political scandal on display in Louisville...
...three strongest works on display: Husbandry by Patrick Tovatt. Les (Ray Fry) is an endangered species: the independent farmer who loves the land and rotates his crops, scrabbling for survival. Now he is tired and just about broke, ready to extend "the chain of stewardship, or better yet, of husbandry" to his son Harry (Ken Jenkins), who works in a city parks department. Les' wife (Gloria Cromwell) demands this sacrifice-fulfillment from her son; Harry's wife (Deborah Hedwall) denounces it. The play simmers so gently for so long, as each potential confrontation is deflected with Chekovian shrugs...