Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...train stops in the stillness of time. Passengers in this single car of the Orient Express luxuriate forever in a reverie of richness. The burnished wood of the dining car, the deep upholstery of the seats, the soft, shaded lighting make the figures stand out in relief, their clothing a testament to social identity and design legacy. In this ravishing tableau, the train is merely the transportation, the setting. It is the clothing that offers a round-trip, first-class ticket for a giddy voyage into the past...
...20th century, however, that rates the greatest exhibition space and is likely to grab the most attention. Besides the Orient Express tableau, created from an actual car that was once part of the fabled train, there is an arrangement of hats displayed in glass cases and perched on tree branches as if the silken, veiled and feathered extravagances were so many nesting birds. A full-figured mannequin lounges unclothed in erotic exhaustion on a rumpled bed, her lingerie strewn on the floor all around her. A whole range of vintage Schiaparellis is displayed nearby in a kind of scaled-down...
...older who had more practical experience than he did. But the government expert says he has learned to help his students transcend the limits of their experiences. "They've had narrow experiences and know a lot more about these narrow experiences. I bring partly theoretical and academic knowledge and train them how to think broadly," he says...
...been with the club for three years as a player, ending 1974, and for eight years as a player represenative, major league coach and special assistant, attributed his dismissal to his having spoken to members of the media about the situation in Winter Haven, Florida, where the Sox train...
...Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, which was established with a 1984 gift of $5 million from a New Jersey industrialist, will train graduate students and young associate professors who want to combine expertise in a discipline such as economics, sociology or history with in-depth knowlege of a particular country or region...