Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such thing. At the very least, it puts on display real, articulate people whose company one mightily enjoys sharing. It proclaims Jeremy Irons as one of the finest young actors. It refines a dishwater dilemma, accommodating one's ideals to one's spouse, into a sparkling tonic. It marks the return of radiance -verbal, intellectual, emotional, theatrical - to a Broadway too long in the dark...
...budget ("In the first place, I said that [a balanced budget] was our goal, not a promise."). And in the wake of the current furor over the President's special hunger commission and the presence of a widespread problem, it is unlikely that the archives will put out on display the text of a 1964 TV speech in which the retired actor said "We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet...
...government, excepting periods of Chinese and French colonization). Bolstering the United States strategic forces is one of the major accomplishments of the Reagan Administration, and while the President has broken a lot of new ground in this field, the item likely to get the most attention will be the display case showing the submarine-launched missile that is recallable--a device the Pentagon is not yet aware...
...tribute to Pollock as the one who "broke the ice"). The purpose of canonization is well in hand; once again-though one must except Curator Paul Cummings' measured and enlightening essay on de Kooning's drawings-the work of a distinguished artist becomes a pedestal for the display of swollen claims...
...hundred collected stories by Colette make for a sumptuous display, rather like a table spread with the fruit and wine she celebrated in her books: "Late-ripening cherries, rosy peaches, thin-skinned Marseilles figs, misty hothouse grapes and champagne shuddering in carafes of heavy crystal...