Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks, an ice cream bash, Cabaret Night, a Dating Game skit, a Night at the Grill, and house tours are offered to display the character of the house. Sunday brunch is provided for new residents on one Sunday in April. Rising sophomores are also given an opportunity to meet the masters and students, and attend a house committee meeting...
...rather than just talking about it, few possess the tale teller's gift, the capacity to invent or recall events in a way that makes them seem significant to outsiders. Fewer still have the discipline to master a new craft. But four worthy current novels, all thrillers or mysteries, display just such painstaking effort by men better known for nonliterary achievements. They include an accountant, a Wall Street lawyer, a movie director and a Privy Councillor in Britain's House of Lords...
...Braves owner Ted Turner, the genius behind that 4:30 a.m. fireworks display, was involved in another debacle in recent years, when he let Phil Niekro go to the Yankees, and then proceded to try to lure him back once he shone in the Big Apple. (Turner ended up settling for a statue of Neikro). Knucksie is also the oldest current major leaguer, having just celebrated another birthday on April 1. Five points if you can name Phil's exact age, and five more if you can identify the only player on the list below who is older than Niekro...
...because (as some candle-snuffing moralists might think) she should be expected to wear them all, and must be judged a wastrel if she did not, but because the 2,700 pairs gave her options. Her step no doubt grew lighter in the knowledge of such freedom. Did she display her shoes the way that Jay Gatsby reveled in his wonderful shirts...
...things--from the excess called prodigality, which is a messier and more full-blooded fault, a form of generosity, almost, but one that has come unhinged. Ideally, world-class plundering should try to pay its way as entertainment. The Romans had a genius for transforming loot into colossally vulgar display, ostentation on an imperial scale. The Emperor Elagabalus, it is said, ordered his slaves to bring him 10,000 lbs. of cobwebs. When they finished the task, Elagabalus observed, "From this, one can understand how great a city is Rome." Louis XIV of France wore a diamond-covered coat that...