Word: exhibit
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Worden said she may have inadvertently sparkedthe latest, international Lei Feng campaign. On arecent trip to China she visited an exhibit inLei's hometown commemorating his life. Surprisedat how seriously the villagers took Lei, shehalf-jokingly wrote in the exhibit's comment book,"Lei Feng belongs to the world...
...late Louis Leakey, for years the dominant male in the field of human- fossil studies, believed that women made better primate researchers than men. His Exhibit A was Jane Goodall, whose work on chimpanzees in Tanzania has been justly celebrated. Exhibit B also achieved acclaim but, on balance, muted the generalization. In 1966 Leakey sent Dian Fossey to the Congo slope of the Virunga volcanic forest to study the habits of the mountain gorilla. Fossey convinced the eminent prehistorian of her resolve with only a few free-lance articles she had written for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Her previous...
BABOON RESERVE, Bronx Zoo. Nubian ibex, rock hyraxes, assorted waterfowl and two troops of threatened gelada baboons inhabit this new 5.5-acre exhibit, which re-creates the high-altitude grasslands of Ethiopia's Amhara Plateau...
...opponents of icky things say what the artist thinks doesn't matter, since by court interpretation, community standards apply. But community standards cannot be applied until the work is actually created. And if, as frequently occurs, artists plan to exhibit their work in various cities, community standards become virtually impossible to standardize...
...course it's questionable whether obscene art actually hurts anyone. Anyone who doesn't like an exhibit can avoid going to that part of the museum that day. If parents think art can corrupt their minor children, they should just not let their children see the offensive work--a sort of self-styled "just say no to sadomasochistic art" campaign...