Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, during a fireworks display in Detroit, an amateur photographer videotaped a gang of young black women beating two older white women while police stood by. After the tape aired on national television, six attackers were arrested and charged with unarmed robbery and assault. And in Fort Worth a woman standing in a friend's yard recorded a police officer beating a handcuffed car-theft suspect 28 times with his baton. The officer is under criminal investigation, and the suspect is free on bail...
...aerospace engineers say there's a "pre-owned" alternative to the proposed $40 billion space station. They are calling on NASA to refurbish and deploy the backup SKYLAB workshop that was built but never used. The original model orbited the earth in 1973-74, and its understudy is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. The experts say launching the venerable Skylab -- which they claim could easily handle the research -- would cost a mere $4 billion...
...what have Cameron and his crew of thousands come up with? A humongous, visionary parable that intermittently enthralls and ultimately disappoints. T2 is half of a terrific movie -- the wrong half. For a breathless first hour, the film zips along in a textbook display of plot planting and showmanship. But then it stumbles over its own ambitions before settling for a conventional climax with a long fuse. It's a truism, and a true one, that people remember the first lines of novels and the last scenes of movies. The best films accelerate, accumulate, pay off. But Cameron...
...concerts or readings in the park for listeners lolling on the grass. Leading dance companies and symphony orchestras emerge from their winter homes to blossom in dells or along breezy lakeshores. Opera companies and rep theaters haunt the deserts at night. Cultural traditions and folkways are everywhere on display. This year is the bicentennial of Mozart's death. New England mountain greenery will echo with his works; a traveler can head westward, enjoying the composer's pieces in big towns and small and, in late August, take in a grand Amadeus finale in the vastness of the Hollywood Bowl...
...advisory warning about the insurgency of the Shining Path guerrillas cut the number of American visitors to the Manu in 1990 to 80, fewer than those who chose to visit Beirut. The area, however, is one of the few places in South America where the primordial Amazon is on display...