Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...15th-ranked Harvard men's tennis team finally had a chance to display its awesome talent to the home crowd at the Beren Tennis Center this weekend. After two months of competition on the road, the Crimson (18-3) did not disappoint the locals...
...German textile conservation expert, it will be unspooled from around its wooden cylinder. After a top cloth has been pulled away--red taffeta, sewn by Princess Clotilde of Savoy in 1868--the fragile, scarred length of ancient linen will be smoothed into place in a metal-and-glass display case built precisely to its dimensions. The case's air will be drawn out and replaced with argon, an inert gas. Then the case will be hung horizontally at the intersection of the Turin Cathedral's nave and transept, near the center of the cathedral's built-in cross. And thus...
...contrast to the Currier Ten-Manbump-and-grind raging on across the street, thePforzheimer Battle of the Bands ventured to exposean original display of musical talent to an eageraudience. The show opened up with theharmonica-wielding Voodoo Crabs, an organic rockband complete with a reservoir of superchargedenergy that overshadowed such drawbacks as afailing trumpet and a shameless prance around theaudience by the lead vocalist. The Voodoo Crabs'exuberance was most likely what earned them thirdbest performer of the evening honors, although thegroup did not deserve the designation. Theharmonica solo during "Perched" was the shininghighlight of the set, but nothing else...
...destruction. At one point, Jones encapsulates this quest for self by retelling the biography of Grandmother Jaboti, Harlan's ancestral precursor in the art of identity building. Jaboti began her life not as a human but as a turtle-woman in a traveling carnival freak show, kept on display between the bearded lady and the unicorn girl. She might have lived as a convinced turtle-woman forever, but for the day she met a man so handsome that she left her carnival in his pursuit, following him so far outside the striped walls of the freak-show tent that...
...could anyone get too much Harvard? The sickening process begins even before entering the center. The storefront boasts a new map that lights up any location on campus (even the Quad) at the push of a button. But more fascinating is the interactive computer display that operates even after closing time. The unwary passer-by is first greeted with a bouncing image of that Harvard staple, the Eliot House bell tower. The visitor is then presented with a list of possible subjects to explore, ranging from the potentially interesting "Adventure" and "Famous Faces at Harvard" categories to the standard "Athletics...