Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nice Jewish girl from New York who went to Radcliffe and became a prominent international banker at a time when nice Jewish girls weren't supposed to do such things. Hartley succeeds in making real both Sara's public front and the inner worries that she is reluctant to display even to her sisters. Sara is a difficult part to play--she is both the most restrained of all the characters and the most important of them. Hartley keeps Sara on an even keel, displaying small flashes of humor without losing the essential reserve necessary to the character...
Marianne Zaslavsky, 9, of Needham is a science museum connoisseur, and prefers the Museum of Comparative Zoology to the Boston Science Museum because of the sheer number of animals on display. "I love birds," she said. "Mom, look at this guy. He looks like he has a wart." Twelve-year-old Michael Horton likes trilobites. "It's neat to see fossils and the stones they were fossilized in and their texture," he said...
...newer exhibits make some use of modern technology. The Sound Production Morphology Exhibit allows visitors to hear dolphin and whale sounds at the touch of a button, and complementary computer-generated graphs display their frequencies. The real thrill of the museum, however, lies in exhibits which haven't been touched for years...
...having seen the exhibition of Danish painting at the Fogg, I don't plan to throw out my Goyas, Cezannes, and Van Goghs to make room for their Danish contemporaries. If you've never heard of any Danish painters, don't panic. The collection of Danish paintings currently on display, while interesting, serves mainly to indicate how little you've been missing over the years...
...virtual-reality-type head-mounted display developed for military aircraft that can also be used on assembly lines to project instructions and data without tying up assembly workers' hands...