Crafts, antiques and corporate displays.
But April Andino, 24, a waitress, stopped going to the parade, saying she was bored with the corporate displays and an overly rowdy crowd.
"WORLD'S LARGEST BLOCK PARTY," arts, crafts, antiques, clothing, and more than 50 cultural and corporate displays, providing samples and free information.
There are 9,000 museums in the United States, according to the American Association of Museums in Washington, and thousands more learning centers, visitor centers and corporate displays.
As for those corporate displays in the upper windows of the building's base, Mr. Himmel explained that they masked the stores' back-of-the-house space: windowless areas used for offices, storage or dressing rooms.
Speakers throughout the conference, representing companies like TransCanada and PTI, regurgitated rhetoric from Levant's book, while various corporate displays framed safety and environmental responsibility as the oil industry's first and only apparent priorities.
I have even seen one or two hiding under the Clifford™ or Dora™ or Arthur™ or Ollie the Oil Slick video station (sponsored by B.P. and Enron), or behind some other corporate-sponsored display that has come to pass as an educational exhibit in a kids' museum.
Beneath the sniping, so many real things lie in ruins: a corporate paradigm displaying no shred of responsibility, but eager for rescue by taxpayers; a military leadership's implicit promise to its recruits and their families; a public discourse commodified into channels that feed any given preacher's resentments to a self-selecting chorus.
CEO Fiorina talked a lot about "innovation" while pursuing corporate strategies displaying a striking lack of imagination.
