Word: exhibitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dallas has decided to acknowledge the continuing interest in the site. The city's landmark commission gave approval for a 60-ft. elevator tower that will run to the building's sixth floor, where a historical exhibit will detail the President's murder. The $3 million project is scheduled to open by the fall of 1988, the 25th anniversary of the assassination. "Dallas has come to terms with worldwide curiosity," declared Dallas County Chief Executive Lee Jackson. "We'll present the building to the world and let people draw their own conclusions...
...help is not easy for Asian Americans. "They are likely to say that willpower can resolve problems," explains Psychologist Stanley Sue, who has specialized in their emotional difficulties. He has found that the problems of these young people "are highly submerged" because they have been "taught not to exhibit emotions in public." Nidorf notes that youthful Indochinese are so conditioned to polite behavior that they hesitate to complain. She recalls the case of a Cambodian girl who was given the wrong textbook but said nothing. Because she was afraid to tell the teacher about the error, she suffered for months...
...traveling exhibit of her sweet, rambunctious canvases marks Elizabeth Murray, 46, as one of the best painters of her generation...
...then the legend was well away. J. Carter Brown, the director of Washington's National Gallery of Art, leaped onto the bandwagon with a scissor-legged agility worthy of Tom Mix, committing his museum to an exhibit of some 125 of the 240 pencil drawings, watercolors and temperas of Helga. Billed as "a set of fascinating documents in the odyssey of the American artistic achievement," with a first printing of 250,000 catalogs, le cirque Helga opens this week and will, of course, be jam-packed until late September, when it begins its progress to Boston, Houston, Los Angeles...
...Washington, the only U.S. city that has pandas on permanent exhibit, schoolchildren send them yearly valentines. When the female (also named Ling Ling) fell ill in 1982, she received thousands of get-well cards; some admirers tearfully called for the latest word on her condition. China lent a pair to the Los Angeles Zoo in conjunction with the 1984 Olympics; attendance more than doubled, and pandamaniacs endured three-hour waits. San Francisco's zoo, where the couple went next, saw attendance jump...