Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours later, slumped in a blue leather chair in the Governor's mansion, Clinton told TIME (in a rare display of introspection) that while he knows a great deal about an awful lot, what he knows best of all is how lucky he is. "In effect," Clinton said, "I'm being given a chance to start again," an opportunity he is determined not to blow, a possibility confirmed by a dramatic increase in the number of people who now say Clinton is "trustworthy" enough to be President (from only 39% in April to 58% today...
...Campaign '92 -- The General Election. The candidates will appear on the TV talk shows for as long as they can, but the big-bucks paid-TV campaign is coming, and it promises to resemble its predecessors. A review of political commercials since they began 40 years ago (currently on display at New York City's American Museum of the Moving Image) is instantly familiar. The themes and techniques are timeless. Sophistication varies, but the efforts of all the candidates routinely combine soft biography and positive ads with a whole lot more of the other kind -- the attack spots designed...
...this material, Stubbs says, is worthy of an exhibition. Already, the Harvard Union has a second--floor display of some Harvard artifacts. Stubbs' new finds would complement that collection, he says, or may wind up in a Peabody Museum gallery...
Nearby, a Pop-Up Willie doll display beckons, "Squash me down and Watch Me Grow." Condom Caps are available for those who want to protect their heads as well as other parts of the anatomy. The Ultimate Birth Control Pill, when squeezed, emits a chilling reminder of what might happen if birth control devices aren't used: a baby's wail...
...basked in this moving display of friendship, this tradition which I'd just entered. Here was the idyllic setting I had refused to allow myself to imagine. Never mind that Harvard's past was not part of my own cultural heritage. For someone who had gone gaga over things colonial--over quill pens, tricornered hats, and Georgian architecture--living in Holworthy, in the Yard, was perfect...