Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another work in this gallery commands attention: Roy Lichtenstein's "Glass V," a human-size painted bronze sculpture of a drinking glass. It's the only three-dimensional work in the show (although it appears flat from most angles) and, as a sculpture, is less often on display than his many paintings...
...militant group threatening to kill a young Israeli soldier by tomorrow if 200 Palestinian prisoners aren't freed. The move, in fact, brought threats from a top Islamic leader whose own house was raided. He said the crackdown would only spur further attacks on Israelis. Rabin, unmoved by the display, threatened to halt the Palestinian autonomy process entirely and even send a strike force into Gaza if Arafat can't save the hostage; whether his life will be saved is now a near unanimous focal point for Israeli fear and anger...
...hand it to William H. Walsh. The guy has guts. Last week, claiming he was outraged by a display of "vulgar" art at City Hall, Walsh brazenly walked away with what he considered the exhibition's most disturbing contents...
...this case, Walsh's protest was short-lived. Hardly had he taken the sex toys home, when Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy called him up to retrieve them. Within a matter of hours, the dildos and the penis were back on display...
...disclaimer has a purpose: it attempts to absolve Cambridge's elected leaders from any responsibility for choosing the smut that's on display. By appointing a committee of so-called artists to make that decision independently--and then pointing the finger at that committee when its choices are criticized--our representatives in City Hall have sought to insulate themselves from controversy...