Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City's Central Park, the Rad Dogs, five Hispanic teens from the Bronx, enthrall crowds with their bike-borne acrobatics. "That was a Miami hop, followed by a pedal picker and a helicopter," explains Paul Perez, 16, after a display that bends the laws of physics. Marco Quezada, 16, tells the Rads' story: "We had nothing much to do until we saw a guy with a trick bike who did a few things, simple stuff, but we were real impressed. So we all started going out to get bikes of our own. That was two years...
...about ten years now, a corporation calling itself Grandbanke has been making a display of Geller's tenacity, to its considerable cost. Grandbanke, a partnership among several out-of-towners, wants to take away Geller's license and run the station the way everyone knows a station ought to be run. Gloucester would no longer have to rely on the 40-odd other stations in range to hear the weather, world and local news, what the Dow Jones is up to. It would be blessed with 60-second spots on "Wonderful Cape Ann" and a daily report "For Fishermen Only...
Moreover, some analysts say, the Soviets wanted to display their displeasure with what they feel is recalcitrance by the Reagan Administration on arms control and other issues. They also wanted to punish and intimidate the Western press in Moscow, which they feel has not taken their peace initiatives seriously enough. The arrest of Daniloff, says Washington Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes, was a "considered judgment and decison by an irritated Soviet leadership." Whether Gorbachev fully concurred is a much debated question. He, Foreign Policy Adviser Anatoli Dobrynin and Shevardnadze were all on vacation at the time, raising the possibility that...
...fireworks celebration which capped off the evening was a weak sister to the extravaganza Walker put on last July. Though loud, the short and dazzling pyrotechnic display elicited few of the "oohs and aaahs" that customarily accompany such celebrations...
...SUCH celebration, of course, was the 350th birthday party the Big H threw for itself back in 1986. That was the one where the best and brightest gathered together to watch a massive fireworks show, which climaxed in a pyrotechnic emblazonement of John Hancock's signature. Back then, the display was large enough for the celebration's guest of honor, Britain's Prince Charles, to read without his spectacles. Atmospheric conditions permitting Saturday night, our brethren at the Lunar Extension School will be able to see former University President Timothy Leary's signature without a telescope...