Word: exhibit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haven't allocated it to any specific exhibits at this time," said Peter L. Walsh of the Harvard University Art Museums. He added that the money will most likely not be put towards any exhibit until next January, when the funds have had time to "accrue income...
...insular elders. "De Klerk," says a Western diplomat, "is younger-minded, more in the pragmatic mold than the ideological generation of Afrikaner politicians." Still, it was only after his surprise selection to succeed P.W. Botha -- De Klerk was the choice of the conservative Old Guard -- that he began to exhibit much willingness to depart from the past...
...reasons still being investigated, a computer in New York City had come to believe it was overloaded with calls, and it started to reject them. Alerted to New York's troubles, dozens of backup computers across the U.S. automatically switched in to take up the slack -- only to exhibit the same bizarre symptoms. People trying to place long-distance calls all over the world suddenly began to hear busy signals and recorded messages blandly informing them that "all circuits" were busy...
...exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington demonstrates that the images of blacks in American painting and sculpture have been mostly servile and degrading, with a few notable exceptions ranging from John Singleton Copley to Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Bigotry had much to do with it, but so did history and artists' working conditions. The show offers too little aesthetic pleasure but plenty of social significance and maybe a bit too much prosecutorial zeal...
...entire country (with the exception of the military) is suffocating in a technological vacuum. According to a delegate of a U.S. computer exhibit in the Soviet Union, many Russians are amazed when they first see that a Xerox machine "knows" how to copy the Russian alphabet...