Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie--began a nationwide U.S. tour with a two-week engagement at the Harvard Square. The Boston cadre of Rocky Horror fans seems to be greeting it with the respect and appreciation due the first draft of a recognized masterpiece--but not with the unmitigated love and devotion they display for the film each weekend at the Exeter St. Theater...
...beep wake-up alarm that will run for about four minutes after the selected alarm time has been reached and it will then turn off automatically. Unlike analog clocks, the digital in the radio has an AM and PM indicator. The clock has an hour switch, minute and second display switches...
...sparring partner who had ascended to the World Boxing Council title in 1978 by crushing Ken Norton, he had since defended his title seven times and won each bout by a knockout, tying Joe Louis' record. Unbeaten in 35 fights, Holmes extended his string with a masterly display of strategy and tactics. When Ali tried to shuffle out of reach, Holmes angled across the ring, cut off Ali's escape and took him to the ropes. When Ali hoisted his hands to play rope-a-dope, Holmes cunningly reached around his cover with furious hooks...
...being lower and wider than its predecessor. This is the automaker's first new four-door model in 15 years. In an understated manner, Rolls-Royce likes to boast about the subtle engineering changes in its vehicles; among other things, the Silver Spirit features a new digital-display clock that replaces the famous ticking one, which according to a famous old Rolls ad was the loudest thing one could hear as the car purred along at 60 m.p.h. But if you have to ask about the gas mileage, you cannot afford to buy one; the Spirit gets between...
...mounts really belongs to a book, not an exhibition, and it is far better done by the catalogue, which is a model of serious, popular historical reconstruction. In the museum, the objects, drawn from national collections in Scandinavia, England, Ireland and elsewhere, seem overcome by the pomp of their display: case after beautifully lighted case, spread wide out to allow for crowd passage, each enshrining its sparse array of broken pins and chipped beads. In this way the socially interesting small change of archaeology is implicitly promoted to "treasure": The Search for/ The Tomb of/ The Magic of/ The Curse...