Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hugh Jacobsen, architect, on the publicity surrounding his latest project, a spacious home on Martha's Vineyard for Jackie Onassis: "Even the plumber has held press conferences to display his bathroom plans...
...people caught in the crossfire between guerrillas and government soldiers, Salvadorans display a remarkable ability to keep up business as usual. Trucks carrying sugar cane and coffee beans still crowd the highways, shops remain open, the buses run. Most people now seem to feel that the guerrillas will eventually be defeated. Many are much more frightened by the right-wing death squads, which apparently intend to kill anyone tainted by the left...
...congress could also not fail to display some of the divisions in the Communist world, such as the enduring conflict between the East bloc parties and the autonomy-minded Eurocommunists. Following a running clash between his party and the Kremlin over Afghanistan and the Polish union issue, for example, Italian Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer had conspicuously stayed home...
While Berg and his colleagues were agonizing about the possible dangers posed by their experiments, two other scientists were planning an even more dramatic display of gene splicing. One of them was an intense biochemist named Stanley Cohen, 46, whose lab was only two floors below Berg's own quarters at the Stanford Medical Center research building. The other was Boyer, who worked just an hour's drive away at the University of California at San Francisco. Their partnership had emerged accidentally. In November 1972, after a long day of listening to scientific papers at a conference in Hawaii, they...
...performance is, for the most part, delightfully amateurish. After all, the Law School teaches a professionalism of a different kind. The only standout among this cast of legal eagles is Bruce Grossberg, as Irving the nerd. Yet, the company's two large chorus numbers display the sort of spirit and energy that might make us re-think the popular conception of the lawyer's personality...