Word: displays
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...boggle factor was most intense in Time Warner's Future Services exhibit, where more than a dozen potential services were on display -- from sports on demand to an instant medical-checkup service. In one such service, rock musician Todd Rundgren showed off his interactive music system, which allows customers to select listening choices by artist, style, tempo or mood. In another, ShopperVision demonstrated its "virtual" supermarket, where customers can browse 3-D aisles, choose among 20,000 kinds of packaged goods and order for same-day delivery...
...Food and Drug Administration implemented a radical idea last spring: food labels that are useful to consumers. Packagers now have to display data on cholesterol, fat, protein, sodium, carbohydrates and vitamins -- and, where appropriate, reveal how much of the recommended daily allowance of these nutrients a serving of the food provides. The most startling requirement: the numbers must be based on a realistic serving size, not one too small to satisfy a hummingbird...
Adventurous directors love to bend and spindle Shakespeare to make contemporary points. Declan Donnellan, of Britain's Cheek by Jowl company (on display in Brooklyn this fall), uses the most traditional means -- a bare stage, an all-male cast -- for radical ends. Does cross dressing lead to tatty camp? No, it's an apt way of addressing the crises of eros and identity at the heart of the play, where comic ingenuity escalates into poetic rapture...
...impossible for a speedy return of Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Hall and the remains of Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon. Christopher made much of a U.S. admission that the two flyers had strayed into North Korea's side of the Korean peninsula's demilitarized zone: "That is an unusual display of candor and openness by the United States and we hope it will be reciprocated by the North Koreans in a prompt response." A 45-minute meeting today between U.S. and North Korean officials -- Rep. Bill Richard
...History of Decorative Arts: The Renaissance and Mannerism in Europe edited by Alain Gruber (Abbeville; $150). And the Lavishly Illustrated Award for 1994 goes to this first of a projected three-volume history of the decorative arts. Eight hundred plates, 500 in color, display ornamental works (painting, sculpture, furniture, textiles, ceramics and other glorious gewgaws) created between 1480 and 1630, a period in which European craftsman broke with the aesthetics of the Middle Ages and looked to antiquity for inspiration. This collection is stunning evidence that they found...