Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hold off. The Wiesbaden stopover is expected to take from three days to a week, depending on the hostages' condition. After that they will be flown to Washington to meet with their families, and only then will they be welcomed with what is sure to be an effusive display of official national honors...
...Appropriately bemused, Benedict describes the ritual squash game which precedes the ritual "winner buys" lunch. Agutter's role is most difficult, for she is not given such an opportunity to step away from her job as walking chess piece. Only in the early love scenes with Jerry can she display any character at all, and there she can only laugh and sparkle, flaunt her yellow shirt and red skirt that are the only bright colors we see all evening...
Despite Weill's attempt to make Gundzinger's feminism palatable through vunerability, Clayburgh still manifests many of the unsympathetic qualities that are stereotypically ascribed to career women. She expects her lover to display inexhaustible patience as she discusses her career "breakthrough," but when she aids him with his work it is only to criticize his sentence structure. "If I could just solve this problem, I'd be in a class with Euclid or Newton," she tells her lover as they lie in bed together. One sympathizes when, at the moment of their break-up, he laments, "It would...
...rest of the country does not like what it sees in its capital city these days, it will eventually change things. As the core of the democracy, Washington will always display the most extreme consequences of popular sovereignty. The citizens who longed for an end to the spoils system now look at some deadheaded, immovable GS-12 and shriek, "But we didn't mean to end up with you!" Of course not. But they did mean someone as different as possible from some political boss's dopey nephew, and up showed the GS-12. It will take more...
Besides restocking animals for display, some zoos hope such breeding experiments can provide the basis for new populations in protected habitats. The London Zoo has already helped put zoo-bred chimpanzees into the forests of Gambia, where they seem to be surviving. Several of the Bronx Zoo's condors now dive and wheel over the mountains of Peru. One of the most prestigious breeding programs has been established on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, where a British group under the honorary directorship of Biologist-Author Gerald Durrell has been breeding everything from rare primates (lemurs...