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...museum of Science is worth the price. With the exception of San Francisco's Exploratorium, there probably is no other science museum in the U.S. as well-known as Boston's own. While it's too late to catch the DaVinci exhibit, the permanent collection is always worth a look, as is a new exhibit on special effects...
...word "drawing" often brings to mind traditional pen-and-ink creations of Leonardo DaVinci's sketchbooks. In the 90s, however, the term has been largely redefined. This new look at what "drawing" really means is one of the strengths of the Boston Center for the Arts' fall exhibition "The Drawing Show...
...convince that computers and world unity can save the world. nor that this goal is wanted. He believes. however, that salvation can be attained and want ended. Fuller's achievements are evidence that a creative spirit can accomplish wonders. The Critical Path is thought-provoking. Fuller, like Leonardo daVinci and sci-fi writers, brings forth ideas: their implementation may not be feasible today, not tomorrow, but the dream is needed before the utopia can be achieved...
...knew about the assistant manager, my friend's father, was that he had cable TV and a Praise the Lord Club sticker on the back of his beat-up blue New Yorker. He and his family also owned a Woolworth's tapestry of DaVinci's "The Last Supper." The manager, who wore bell-bottoms over his brown patent-leather shoes, looked just like his picture on the "This is Your Super-Saver Manager" sign above the customer service desk, so everyone knew...
There remains a widespread tendency among the uptight to protect tender minds by censoring sources of information concerning the magnitude of sexual variation in the world at large, and historic figures in particular. A recent Italian television series on the life of Leonardo DaVinci provides an example of how history is managed. One episode concerned the young DaVinci and his friends being hauled in before the local inquisition. The English narration as seen in America described the case as "heresy," thereby protecting our American sensibilities from the dreadful historic facts of his well known homosexuality...