Word: displays
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Today, however, people no longer wait longingly for the day when technological breakthroughs will revolutionize life and cure all its ills. In fact, the looming shadow of technology giant Microsoft seems to scare people more than impress them. We have seen many of the technologies first displayed to Disneyland tourists--including microwave ovens and dishwashing machines--pop up in our own houses, but the euphoria which many imagined would accompany them has failed to arrive. We now live in the House of the Future, but many would rather return much of contemporary life to a display case. That...
...would encourage the display of and practice in the religious spirit which flows through the student body in a multiplicity of branches. Harvard's sense of divinity has been here from its inception. Guided by the three principles of inclusion, equality and education, we hope to see religion prosper in the houses in the coming years because the spiritual life is very much a part of student life; undergraduates would be deprived if it is limited solely to houses of worship...
...novelty only lasts so long. Whenever you need to change or quickly rush to class without answering questions and being photographed, it is tough to be a celebrity--a Harvard Student on display. First-floor living means captivity--the need to shut out the scant sunlight that enters the room because your half-naked physique might offend a passer-by. And, if it is afternoon and you can reasonably assume no "inappropriateness" will be going on, your open shades are greeted by telephoto lenses and the criss-cross pattern of the window screen on a stranger's nose...
...living history. For example, in 1215 King John was forced by English barons to sign the Magna Carta--a document that effectively curtailed the absolute power of the King. In compensation, the barons offered King John several slightly used Nautilus exercise machines. You may have seen these machines on display at the Malkin Athletic Center museum for the past 750 years...
After Dole criticized Trainspotting, it was pointed out that actually the movie shows some distinctly unromantic aspects of heroin addiction. Advertisements, on the other hand, are supposed to display people whose lives you'd like to emulate by buying the product. That is why those cigarette billboards show vibrant young people who have shiny white teeth and lungs that presumably bear no resemblance at all to a rusted-out tailpipe...