Word: exhibit
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...Smithsonian Institution succumbed to mounting criticism from Congress, veterans and historians and announced it would revise its planned exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary next year of the atom-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Originally focused narrowly on the bombings, which killed more than 200,000 Japanese, the exhibit will now cover Japan's aggression during World War II and factors that influenced the decision to drop the Bomb, including U.S. military leaders' belief that an invasion of the Japanese mainland would leave hundreds of thousands of dead on both sides...
...passionate fan stir-fries the old debate about who does and doesn't deserve to be there. "The Hall of Fame," he writes, "has never really thought through the issue of how to identify the most worthy Hall of Famers." His evidence: comparison of players' records and eyewitness testimony. Exhibit A: Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto, whose exclusion from the Hall stoked a 30-year ruckus...
...Blues varies from James Brown to the gospel troup Blind Boys from Alabama. It goes from funk to jazz to rock-n-roll to country. But all of these are not subsets of the Blues. I suppose they are considered to be the Blues if they exhibit, in Robert Earl Keen, Jr.'s words, "that long and lonesome feeling," whatever that may be. The most intriguing part about the Blues, in the end, is that it defies definition. And the full spectrum was shown and heard at Franklin Park...
...exhibit of the Arcadian landscapes that made Thomas Cole a national culture hero in 19th century America...
...exhibit, notes Museum of Natural History curator Craig Morris, combines art with science to highlight the objects' aesthetic appeal and at the same time emphasize modern archaeological techniques. "Each piece must be understood in relationship to everything else," he explains. Alva and his team made sure that the position of the items in each grave was recorded and analyzed. An ornament in closest proximity to the body, for example, had the greatest symbolic significance and conveyed the role of the person in the highly organized Moche society...