Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obnoxious because the game saw a display of ungodliness and running up the score not seen by Harvard since, well, the last time it played Holy Cross...
...Moscow also has its entrepreneurial legions: 12,000 officially registered "individual laborers" and more than 650 "cooperatives." While a policeman looks on benignly, commuters outside Kiev railway station examine the cloth shopping bags, plastic sandals and odds and ends of knitwear on display in a battered truck. Street artists on the Arbat compete for customers. Gorky Park is alive with the sound of plastic bird whistles, costing a relatively hefty 1.50 rubles...
...opera about Richard Nixon's landmark visit to the People's Republic of China that also includes Pat Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai among its cast of characters. Although it is sure to provoke strong emotions and conflicting opinions, Nixon in China, currently on display at the Houston Grand Opera, is the most important new opera since Philip Glass gave voice to Mohandas Gandhi in Satyagraha seven years...
Attracting much attention from the exhibitgoers, was the "disappearing devil fan." A large replica is on display for people to try and figure out. Designed to rotate in a limited manner, the puzzle is created by fastening two concentric circles together. The idea is that when the puzzle is in its original position, you can count 13 devils. But when you rotate one of the circles just a little bit, one of the devils disappears...
...largest display in the exhibition is the collection of block puzzles, which are far from ordinary barrel puzzles...