Word: exhibitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next month an exhibit of Rubinger's photographs spanning 40 years of Israeli life will open in Jerusalem. He selected pictures that focused on ordinary Israelis and leaders in less formal moments. The retrospective, like the book that will be published in conjunction with it, is titled, appropriately, "Witness...
...paradox at the heart of today's computer science. The most powerful computing machines -- giant number crunchers possessed of speed and storage capacities beyond human comprehension -- are essentially dumb brutes with no more intellectual depth than a light bulb. At the other extreme are computers that have begun to exhibit the first glimmers of human-like reasoning, but only within the confines of narrowly defined tasks...
...detail than in past campaigns, the press has been able to report the strategies behind the tactics. First comes incessant polling to test a rival's vulnerabilities, then the devising of advertising slogans and one-liners for the candidate to exploit such weaknesses. Candidates call press conferences to exhibit their latest negative commercials, while consultants explain their psychological subtleties. Campaign strategists boast how they put in the candidate's mouth his most successful ad libs. It is as if acknowledging phoniness makes it honest...
...Human Figure in Early Greek Art," an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, charts the upward trek through the ripening depiction of the human form. That pivotal Greek effort laid the basis for Western art until this century, when the modernists exploded the assumptions of symmetry, rationalism and realism generally. The show, which after closing in Washington on June 12 will move on to Kansas City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston, is a collaboration of the National Gallery and the Greek government, in which contributions from 18 Greek museums have been assembled. Scaled to a museumgoer...
...have to admit, I exhibit this tendency myself--I think everyone at Harvard does. We're all overacheivers, after all. My being tense means that I need calm people around to show me when I get out of hand. But in an environment defined by anality, I end up being the mellow one, trying to exert a stabilizing influence on the basket cases I feel constantly surrounded...