Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times a week. Now she has her revenge: The Body Principal is soon to hit the bookstores, where it will join the dozens of other glossy guides like Jane Fonda's ? on weight lifting and weight reducing, on holistic medicine and pregnancy therapy ? that crowd the special display tables devoted to the fitness fashion...
Boutique browsers have snapped up more than 100 pairs since the jeans went on display in May. At one shop a businessman bought two pairs each for himself and his wife. Such conspicuous consumption, though, has caused a stir. A Singapore newspaper called the blue-jeans binge "nothing less than barbaric," and the government broadcasting company banned further TV ads, telling Yane that the jeans are "exploitation of the rich...
...Steinbrenner's Yankees now display certain characteristics of Rome's later days? Does the owner rant like Caligula? Will he select his horse to be the next manager? One drives up the Major Deegan Expressway in The Bronx, and in the summer dusk one may see a few blazes set by arsonists burning down the ghetto for the insurance. There in the distance Yankee Stadium glows with its wonderful radioactive light: a gem in a slum. One comes early for the batting practice; Frank Sinatra sings New York, New York over the p.a. system. Up in the broadcast...
...they were written, and the Violin Concerto, premiered by Isaac Stern. But his most ambitious rapprochement with the past has come not in instrumental music but in opera. The Confidence Man, with a libretto by Gene Rochberg based on Herman Melville's bleak, cynical novel, is currently on display at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico...
...Confidence Man does not necessarily mean a corresponding failure of musical idiom. The quality of Rochberg's lyric invention is high, and the fast-moving sequences, such as the minstrel show, are handled with dashing technical assurance. Even the two scenes with the angel, ironic though they are, display a strong command of modern musical materials. Rochberg has issued a challenge in The Confidence Man, to both himself and other composers, a challenge to make modern music speak again in the language it inherited from the 18th and 19th centuries. Whether it can be done persuasively and unselfconsciously...