Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems began in 1978, when Congress, anxious to display its inflation-fighting zeal, put a cap on salaries paid to career bureaucrats. The unforeseen result: 6,000 senior managers now earn the same amount as some 30,000 subordinates who reached the limit by annual cost of living increases. Unless the ceiling is lifted, within two years 135,000 federal employees will be bunched together at the top scale. Says Acting Comptroller General Milton J. Socolar: "This situation is absurd...
...ways than one. Reagan also made his first public comment -a huzzah-on the news that two of those Navy F-14s had shot down two Soviet-made Libyan Su-22s over the Mediterranean off Libya's coastline (see WORLD). That had been a two-fisted, straight-shooting display of military decisiveness much in keeping with Reagan's desire to project American clout overseas...
...pendulous underlips festoon every wall in this show: the Bourbons, offshoots of the reigning French and Spanish royal families. They controlled a great capital: with 400,000 people, Naples was the largest city in Italy and, after London and Paris, the third largest in Europe. Its need for conspicuous display and luxury kept architects and builders in constant work. A few of them, like the artists Corrado Giaquinto (1703-66) and Francesco Solimena (1657-1747), or the architect Ferdinando Sanfelice (1675-1748), were touched with extraordinary talent. Most of the rest could deploy the kind of rhetorical eloquence and high...
...inspired showman, Barr masterminded hundreds of exhibitions that rarely failed to create an uproar. The avant-garde sculpture he imported for a 1936 show so bewildered U.S. Customs officials that they refused to recognize it as art and tried to levy heavy duties. His decision to display such objects as an oval wheel and a fur-lined teacup irked the museum's trustees, and one show devoted entirely to an elaborate shoeshine stand crafted by little-known Primitive Artist Joe Milone nearly got him fired. But he also presented landmark shows on surrealism, Dada, Bauhaus architecture, machine design...
...plaque at the start of the exhibits: "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." Suspended majestically over the central space is a 63-ft. skeleton of a finback whale donated by the New York State Museum in Albany, where it had been on display from the 1890s to 1978. The dolphin pool, or "tray," is visible from almost every vantage point in the building, its rippling surface broken by the frothy play of four bottle-nosed dolphins. Recorded sounds of surf, sea birds, sea lions and even snapping crustaceans can be heard on the escalator...