Word: exhibitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bones of their ancestors, locked away in laboratories and museums. In Tasmania recently, officials ordered the return of a state collection of ancient bones to the aborigines. And earlier this year, native Australians prevented two aboriginal skulls, each more than 10,000 years old, from being sent to an exhibit of human evolution at the Museum of Natural History in New York. Declares Lawyer Jim Berg, an aborigine who has been a leader of the campaign for native rights: "We don't dig up white people's cemeteries, so why should they be allowed to dig up ours...
...century: in that brief span the car has probably changed our lives as much as any invention in all the previous epochs. It was time that some courageous museum looked in the rear-view mirror and mounted a show to celebrate and lament those alterations. The exhibit is called "Automobile and Culture," and it is housed in the new Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA...
...give the effect of a vast, raw artist's studio, some 30 antique and modern cars are displayed like icons. Around the Pierce Arrows, Packards and Mercedes-Benzes are nearly 200 paintings, graphics, sculptures and photographs dedicated to what Historian Lewis Mumford called our "mechanical mistress." The exhibit amounts to a striking critique of industrial society as well as the vehicles it has produced...
...wonder if America is "ready" for a woman Vice President. That is not the question. This nation is always ready for the ablest candidate, male or female. Women, however, have apparently failed to exhibit the required qualities. Your report makes it evident that women will fail again. The question is not when will America be ready for a female Vice President but, rather, when will a woman be ready for the vice presidency...
WITHOUT DOUBT, the college constituencies, as these politicians in the academy call them, exhibit ambivalence over the power of the president "Students do not want the president to enforce the local drinking age," claimed Riesman, who established his academic career decrying trends among our generation in The Lonely Crowd, "but are happy to invoke in loco parentis surreptitiously when they get in trouble." The faculty of a college, Riesman argues, feels ambivalent about the president's power, expecting some sort of errand boy to free them from lowly administrative chores, but skeptical of any real power...