Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brooklyn Museum's entrance hall is a period room of the recently lost future, haunted by a peculiar American dream from the days when model-airplane kits were still mostly balsa. A 1929 high-wing monoplane, bravely lacquered in sky blue and wasp yellow, hangs from the ceiling, almost low enough for the grown visitor to touch its spats. Nearby sits the Chrysler Airflow -- not, alas, the classic 1934 model with the "waterfall" radiator, but still modernity on wheels, squinty windshield, fairings and all. Between them are such icons as the 1936 Sears-Roebuck Waterwitch outboard, offering its owner some...
Seeburg faces competition, though. Next month, Rowe International will introduce a model that will play both CDs and 45s. Seeburg also confronts the new video jukeboxes produced by Laser Video Music and Rowe. They play music videotapes on 25-in. color screens. Since video jukeboxes, which charge 50 cents a play, were first introduced three years ago, some 700 have been installed. They typically offer 45 different selections...
...city placed a public disclaimer near the model after Greenberg and the ADL protested...
...purpose [of the model U.N.] is to expose students to international affairs and get them more interested in what is happening outside the United States," said Araten. He added that it also gives "delegates a chance to understand the U.N. better than they could by reading the papers...
About 100 Harvard students will spend the weekend serving as moderators for the event, said Bruce M. Zessar '87 of Kirkland House, who participated in the model U.N. in high school and will direct the Special Political Committee at this year's conference...