Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...literary skills of writers like Lopez notwithstanding, nature remains its own best salesperson. Nowhere is the exuberant genius of the biosphere more on display than in the world's rain forests, and photographs convey the riches of these regions as well as any text. Chronicle Books is currently bringing The Rainforests, A Celebration ($35) to the U.S. A coffee-table book first published in Britain, it combines stunning photographs with a series of essays written by some of the leading students of tropical nature. The book takes the reader through the forests, showcasing the resident creatures, their different strategies...
...works displayed in Themeless Show were not, of course, the exact same ones displayed last year, but the Triptych in its latest exhibit did not make a radical departure from the past or take bold artistic risks. The most recent display included photography, printmaking and painting, and it consisted largely of works arranged in series. The majority of pieces, though, were photographs distorted in various ways. The different techniques were intriguing but Triptych organizers, given free rein, allowed black-and-white images to dominate the show. Although a fair number of the images were quite admirable, even the most stellar...
Radios are fixed so they can receive only the one acceptable station, and a loudspeaker is installed in every home. The display case in a hotel bookstore features 114 different works, all by Kim Il Sung or his son and heir apparent, Kim Jong Il. Martial music is piped in throughout the country, even in the bus taking passengers from airplane to terminal; by daybreak, when workers march to their jobs, a fast, furious female voice is already shouting exhortations from a hidden amplifier in the street...
...shocking display of hypocrisy, the human-rights conscious Carter Administration recognized the Khmer Rouge's United Nations seat. The Reagan Administration (less surprisingly) continued this policy, and, beginning in 1982, gave economic aid to a tripartite coalition including the Khmer Rouge despite the fact that they dominated the group...
...early slams, Tarik Campbell added a dunk off the break and Tyler Rullman got a not-so-emphatic slam later in the first half to bring the partisan crowd to its feet. Even in Norwegian, a "slam dunk" is still a slam dunk--a crowd-raising, arena-rattling display of emphatic domination...