Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grab-bag adjective new age doesn't even begin to embrace it. No, this is beyond that, this display arrayed before anyone taking a stroll down the midway at the "Whole Life Expo," the country's largest and most successful holistic fair, which packed more than 20,000 souls into an arena in Austin, Texas, last week and is on its way to a city near...
...There are modules for stereo vision and manual dexterity, for understanding numbers and grammatical speech, for sexual jealousy and romantic love. Don't think of them as "detachable, snap-in components," he cautions. They're not visible to the naked eye "like the rump steak on the supermarket cow display." A mental module, he says, "probably looks more like roadkill, sprawling messily over the bulges and crevasses of the brain...
...leave noir to the French and other outsiders; they are less likely to go simple with sentiment. Two handsome films, Jacques Audiard's A Self Made Hero and Arturo Ripstein's Deep Crimson, take a smart, stony-eyed look at chicanery in the '40s. Some cunning insects are on display, and not a tear needs to be shed for them or their victims...
...display your self-regard on the cover of your memoir--a field already crowded with books such as Claudia Schiffer's Memories and almost 20 celebrity bios called My Life? Apparently, the next wave is minimalism, as demonstrated by Whoopi Goldberg's new, boldly titled Book. Some of the genre's classics...
...Look on top of the Morgan Stanley building at Times Square," suggests James Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer. "There is a continuous electronic display of the most obscure and arcane financial information imaginable, and the crowds on the street look up and don't seem to think there's anything odd or misplaced about it." Ticks, euros, LIBOR, basis points--a new language...