Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flip side, Papageno, played by George Shepherd, stole the show with his energetic and comic display of Falstaffian humor. Shepherd's rendition of Mozart's comic bird catcher with a heart of gold kept the audience howling with his playful comedic routines and impish humor, making up for his mostly inadequate voice. On the whole, his playful antics and spirit added greatly to the production which tended to drag on as the hours progressed...
...side of the sun in early January, it disappeared from view, not to be visible from earth again until after it emerged from the sun's glare in mid-February. Unfortunately for earthbound observers, it was during that unseen passage that Halley's put on its most dramatic display so far. As the comet neared its Feb. 9 perihelion, its closest approach to the sun (about 55 million miles), the searing solar rays caused increasing amounts of material to evaporate from its icy surface. Eventually the comet's enveloping gas cloud, or coma, grew to more than 12.5 million miles...
MAKING CONTACT: USES OF LANGUAGE AND PSYCHOTHERAPY, by Leston Havens, sold at the Harvard University Press Display Room...
...undo the winter's work in Moscow. Thousands of men and women, ordered to turn out for subbotnik, a Saturday of so-called voluntary unpaid labor, cleared streets and sidewalks of slippery patches. At the same time, tons of special food consignments were flooding into the city for proud display in store windows. Convoys of black limousines snaked through the streets or lolled at curbside. And everywhere throughout the country, from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad, red banners and billboards appeared bearing the Roman numerals XXVII...
...colorful placards and broadsides to implore the people to do the right thing, from preventing forest fires to keeping mum about military secrets during wartime. Last week 117 examples of this perennial propaganda tool, drawn by the likes of Thomas Hart Benton, Ben Shahn and Norman Rockwell, went on display at the National Archives in Washington in a new exhibition called "Uncle Sam Speaks." The show will run for a year...