Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Quist evidently has little control over the inconsistencies permeating his show. Editing of some of the melodramatic, hackneyed lines could have improved this production. The actors display only a vague notion of how vital the character interaction is, and the resulting performance lacks the rhythm so essential to comedy...
Kessler's direction energizes the show. He times the characters' constant motion--entering, leaving, eveasdropping and climbing on the furniture--perfectly. And Ted Caplow's set, with its spoon display, cellar door and bowl of half eaten apples, creates a homey. insular environment...
...blue umbrellas unfurled along 12 miles of Japan's landscape. A week earlier, high California winds toppled one of 1,760 yellow umbrellas opened as part of the same project. Lori Rae Mathews, 33, was crushed by the 485-lb. parasol. Removing the ill-starred display will take months...
Several states, including California, New York and Pennsylvania, have taken steps to prohibit Caller I.D. unless phone companies offer customers the ability to block their numbers from being displayed at any time. To pre-empt further moves by the states, the Federal Communications Commission has proposed that callers be allowed to block the display of their numbers on individual calls but not be able to demand that the phone company automatically block their numbers from being displayed at any time. The conflict may have to be resolved in the courts or Congress. The Senate has before it a bill that...
...sight: 165 British ships of the line, plus vessels from 14 other nations including the U.S. and Japan. At a signal, seamen scurried to attention on decks and yardarms, and the warships boomed out cannon salutes as the yacht passed by. For three hours that evening, in a dazzling display of modern technology, every ship was outlined against the somber sky by hundreds of electric lights. It was, wrote a stunned British reporter, "a fairy fleet festooned with chains of gold...