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Another interesting aspect of the exhibit is the "Inventing a Contemporary Period Room" section in which the curators have put together a "typical" room of the '90's. The room is hardly typical, unless you're a millionaire art-collector, but it is still beautiful and holds a collection of unique objects. This part of the show aims to explore how "an understanding of the past...is conditioned by the time in which it was created." But, as the label points out, the room "fails to convince because it lacks the reality and diversity of actual life." This installation illustrates...
...okay; I'll have a Harvard degree. In Linguistic. And maybe someday my diploma will be a collector's item...
...chorus/ verse/ chorus/ bridge/ verse/ chorus, two or three riffs per song, and one memorable line to provide the title--raw materials more common in the pop music "underground" than coal under the real ground. And their lyrical and emotional raw materials are equally commonplace; lead guy and stripedshirt collector Mick Murphy sings about wanting to escape his friends for a while ("Mr. Spaceman"); about not understanding why his girlfriend left him ("Gas," "Tremendous many"); about crushes ("Water for a Man on Fire") and so on. Sometimes (as in Sorry's Not Enough") the results are equally commonplace, WFNX fodder...
...efforts have been cheered by her fellow aficionados. "The ones I've heard have a live feeling, as if Gershwin were there," says Trebor Tichenor, a ragtime pianist and scholar in St. Louis, Missouri, who owns one of the largest private collections of piano rolls in America. Agrees collector Michael Montgomery, whose archives contain 100 of the extant Gershwin rolls: "It is the most careful, scholarly, faithful, high-integrity job that has ever been done with piano rolls...
MaAnaney says she found the blanket in Manhattan, and as a collector of the Elvis stamps, she "just had to have...