Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans' proposals display an unprecedented short-sightedness. At a time when the nation's ability to compete and think creatively holds so much importance, legislators should keep education sacred...
...rest of the film involves a silly love story between La Mole and Margot, sometimes no more than an excuse for them to display their respective endowments and to pose prettily in profile. Needless to say, La Mole and Margot, like all good French lovers since Abelard and Heloise, are doomed and terrifically tragic. There are also poisonings, escape attempts, decapitations, incestuous rapes and boar hunts, all of which make "Queen Margot" a soap opera of historic order...
...King and Mrs. King, as they call themselves, have a job to perform--they must display their lives as model, and their family as exemplary. When at last the family stands reunited on the steps of Saint Paul's for the celebration of George's recovery, Hynter manages to make the viewer believe that this is indeed a heroic act. Tragic, comic, and heroic--"The Madness of King George" really lives up to long-forgotten standards of entertainment...
...artificial light. Because the blocks of the museum mass are stepped back, each floor gets its share of filtered daylight through the roof, and the detailing of these skylights recalls the great prototype of Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, still the most beautiful art-display building erected in postwar America. Botta worked for a time in Kahn's firm in the U.S., and the influence shows. Nothing is out of scale, and the adjustment of ceiling heights conforms to the gallery contents-more intimate for the photography and drawing galleries, taller and airier for paintings...
...pictures and narrative about the Japanese who suffered and died. Rep. Peter Blute (R-Mass.), one of the congressional critics, said the original exhibit amounted to "a politically correct diatribe on the nuclear age." The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., now will simply display the famous bomber's fuselage and show a video of its crew...