Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life lost to AIDS; stitched together is everything from ashes, photographs and articles of clothing to an air-conditioning vent. The unveiling will culminate a week-long series of events celebrating the anniversary of last year's March on Washington by gays and lesbians. While the quilt is on display outdoors, it will be guarded by 300 volunteers, who have been trained to fold it in as little as 45 seconds should the weather turn foul...
...early display of congressional muscle, both houses quickly passed a five-year, $20 billion clean-water act that Reagan had vetoed the previous session. When the President sent the bill back again, Congress easily overrode his veto. The pattern for the final two years of the lame-duck President's term was set: in almost contemptuous defiance of vetoes and threats, Congress enacted expensive measures to improve highways and mass transit, mandate 60- day notification of plant closings and layoffs, provide help to the homeless, bolster elementary and secondary education, and provide protection against catastrophic illness...
...some extent, such frustrations are inevitable: gymnastics buffs want to see every routine, swimming mavens every heat. Yet not even 179 1/2 hours of coverage is enough to display more than about a tenth of all the action. But NBC's sense of proportion has been peculiarly maddening. It broke into live coverage of Janet Evans' gold-medal swim in the 400-meter individual medley to air a banal taped interview with her. Night after night, viewers saw just enough volleyball or water polo to frustrate them as they waited for something else, yet not enough context or start...
Like Bush, he is a son of privilege. But the native Texan Baker -- a man who can look natural wearing an elegant suit while chewing a wad of Red Man tobacco -- manages to display the image of Eastern polish mixed with Southwestern earthiness that Bush looks silly trying to project. The family law firm, Baker & Botts, which his great-grandfather joined in 1872, is one of the largest and most prestigious in Houston. Baker was educated at the Hill ! School in Pennsylvania and at Princeton, earned a law degree at the University of Texas, and served in the Marines. Because...
...meter race, the world' s fastest man, Ben Johnson, runs faster still, while Jackie Joyner- Kersee sets a new heptathlon mark. -- Greg Louganis shows that divinity can withstand a bump on the head, and swimming records fall like raindrops. -- In gymnastics, the Soviets present a breathtaking display of amazing grace...