Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things harder for criminals, though maybe not hard enough. For instance, late on a Friday night last month, a store surveillance camera picked up eight men in ski masks outside the entrance of Ed's Gun & Tackle in Marietta, Georgia. One of them took a hard swing at the display window with a sledgehammer. Nothing happened. (Sometimes that shatterproof glass really works.) The group scattered, then returned in a car, which they drove straight through the glass doors. What followed was a frenzied minute of supermarket sweep as the intruders grabbed 60 semiautomatic handguns. Three of the thieves have been...
...special exhibit to celebrate the centenary of the legendary slugger's birth. ``Babe Ruth--An Artistic Perspective,'' on view until Sept. 5, portrays America's Sultan of Swat in more than 40 paintings, sculptures and photographs by artists including Miguel Covarrubias, Robert Reger and Nickolas Muray. Also on display at the center is the model for Babe's Dream, a monumental bronze sculpture of Baltimore's most famous son, which will be unveiled at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the city's baseball stadium...
...display has taken free verse to a ridiculous and grotesque extreme. We speculate that this was done for (melo) dramatic effect, but it does not succeed in moving us. Call us unfeeling. Call us not trendy enough. But the exhibit's stubborn refusal to acknowledge the wholeness of words and the rules of grammar just gives us a headache...
...organizers of this shameless display of self-pity do not even have the courage to claim responsibility for what they have wrought...
Ironically, he instead relies primarily on the Harvard folklore surrounding the Folklore department. I could just as easily deride the Philosophy department for studying turgid and archaic prose which may have been applicable centuries ago but has lost meaning in the modern world. But that would display a juvenile understanding of the subject...