Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aftermath of any election, there is a tendency to display excessive patriotic pride. We finish counting all the ballots, we announce the victors, we look around and we give ourselves a big national pat on the back. Yep, folks, we did it again. Democracy is still alive and well. Good for us. Pappy Washington would be proud. But before we adorn every street corner with the stars and stripes, perhaps we should take a further peek at what self-government really means in the various nooks and crannies of this great land...
Town Manager Kenneth Knight determined that the municipal code prohibited only the display of genitalia or the committing of sexual acts in public. Because breasts are not technically genitalia, and mowing the lawn is not technically a sexual act, Thompson's pleas for justice were rebuffed (no pun intended...
...anywhere for a while, but if you don't hurry, you might miss the fascinating exhibit, Egyptian Funerary Arts and Ancient Near East Galleries. It really doesn't get much better than this. Embalmed crocodiles, ancient death masks and true to life (no pun intended) mummies are all on display until November 8. 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 267-9300 $10, seniors and students...
...precise spot in the programming. I've been trying out a Panasonic DVD A310 ($599), and am surprised that the picture really does look twice as good as those blurry images my half-as-expensive, suddenly depressing VCR has been grinding out. That's because VHS recorders typically display movies at about 240 lines of resolution; digital video paints the screen with 500 lines. It's one of those situations in which you don't realize how unsatisfying a thing is until you've got something better to compare it with. And by then, of course, you're ruined...
...attention from the planet below him than all other shuttle astronauts, past and present, put together. The city of Perth in Western Australia, nostalgic about the night it lit up for Glenn?s Friendship 7 fly-by, decided to go one brighter. The grand old spaceman saw their luminous display for about five minutes, and pronounced it better than 1962: "They?ve really got them lit up tonight," Glenn said. So wrapped up was the Ohio senator, he mistakenly called Houston mission control "Cape" -- which it was, 36 years...