Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another detachment of Blues and Royals rode out as usual for the mounting of the guard, bearing the tattered standard of their comrades. As they approached the blackened spot where the car had exploded, the men on horseback saluted the fallen with upraised swords. It was a typically British display of 2 grit. Prime Minister Thatcher visited wounded members of the Green Jackets in London's St. Mary's Hospital. She moved from bed to bed and stopped to console Gillian Ward, 22, whose husband David, a clarinet player, lay heavily bandaged. Said Thatcher: "These brave young...
...senatorial inquiries that were often more speech than question. He had two bulging briefcases at his feet, but never once reached into them to search for a paper that would provide an answer. Confident, but with no hint of arrogance, George Pratt Shultz, 61, provided a reassuring display of his Washington-wise competence as he went about winning unanimous confirmation by the Senate as the 60th U.S. Secretary of State...
...Delilah, it recounts the bravery of Princess Kumo-no-Taema (Tamasaburo), who journeys to the mountain redoubt of Priest Narukami (Ebizo) to seduce him and free the god of rainfall, whom Narukami has imprisoned. Tamasaburo, a picture of idealized femininity, and the virile, matinee-idol handsome Ebizo both display the mastery of gesture and vocal control that Grand Kabuki requires. Also noteworthy is Tomijuro, who plays the brave retainer in Kanjincho...
...estate prices displaced the easel set, Southern California's Laguna Beach is better known these days for a kind of living Louvre. Each July and August, as the crowning glory of its 50-year-old Festival of the Arts, the town mounts a Pageant of the Masters: a display of tableaux vivants reproducing famous artworks with human figures in a 12-ft. by 30-ft. picture frame onstage. The show runs slightly more than two hours at an outdoor theater called the Irvine Bowl...
...middle-aged corporate executive is gnawing on his pencils and growling for the personal computer to remain outside the door of his executive suite. They are found everywhere today, from dentists' offices to living rooms, but many top business managers simply do not want a keyboard and video-display terminal cluttering up their mahogany desktops-almost as if the machines were aesthetically distasteful. Says John Thompson, a vice president of Index Systems, a management consulting firm: "There is a widespread assumption among executives that computers are something to be put in the basement, where they can harmlessly belch forth...