Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, the dramatic irony of the occasion was all too obvious. Reagan's policies--specifically his latest budget proposal--display a committment to the kind of person he so often finds occasion to praise which is as wavering as his breathy voice...
...some 400 conservative true believers were announced. In a field of ten hypothetical G.O.P. presidential candidates, Bush wound up a clear and surprising first, with 36.3% of the vote. That was better than double the 16.9% share accorded Kemp, who was last year's winner. Ever anxious to display his conservative credentials, Bush in his speech reminded delegates that he had supported Barry Goldwater's losing presidential bid in 1964 and declared that a majority of Americans now endorse "the ( principles for which we stood...
...dignified 30-minute ceremony ended with a display of an aerial equivalent of the riderless horse procession, which was impressed indelibly on a mourning nation at the funeral of John Kennedy 22 years ago. Four T-38 jets--the trainers in which all astronauts prepare for their dangerous duties --roared overhead. It would have been a perfect V formation except that a fifth plane was missing, and another symbolic void was created when one of the jets veered sharply away from the others. As the band played God Bless America, the President and the First Lady went down the line...
This year, in a rare display of tokenism, Sports Illustrated has included photographs of a Black woman. In previous years, only white women with WASPy names (with the recent exception of Paulina Porizkova) were considered beautiful enough to grace the issue's pages...
...intention of the new Museum of Fashion Arts, inaugurated this week in Paris by French President Francois Mitterrand, to make sure that the sun always shines brightly on the world of fashion. Tableaux like the Orient Express--part of the museum's premier exhibition, "Moments of Fashion," a display of costumes spanning the past three centuries--may have a sentimental cast, but they also have a dramatic vibrancy. The new museum, which is contiguous to the Union of Decorative Arts and part of the Louvre, thus becomes one of the world's foremost facilities for the study of clothing...