Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow stole in 1934 from a farm in Topeka. (Barrow wrote Henry Ford I: "I drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with one. For sustained speed and freedom from trouble, the Ford has got every other car skinned." Its new owner plans to exhibit the sedan, still bloodstained and riddled with 160 bullet holes, at $2.50 a throw. For him it wasn't exactly a steal. He paid $175,000 for it at a Princeton, Mass., auction, making it the most expensive used car in history, dearer even than Adolf Hitler...
...produce any document in his possession. Ruled Marshall: "The President, although subject to the general rules which apply to others, may have sufficient motives for declining to produce a particular paper ... I can readily conceive that the President might receive a letter which it would be improper to exhibit in public, because of the manifest inconvenience of the exposure." Jefferson handled the problem by denying that the court had a right to subpoena his papers; then he went ahead and produced the letters anyhow. Thus the issue was never forced to a final test...
Among the most obvious of these is a total lack of narrative drive, both overall and within the individual sequences of his films. Playtime finds him trying to keep an appointment in an automated office building, wandering through an exhibit of new industrial products, attending the opening night of a new restaurant which is trying to maintain a chic air while construction workers are still trying to finish the place...
...acting like its gullibility was being tested. People were like wary hustlers laying their ignorance on the line to be bullied. They had come looking for art. But they shied from admitting that art was what they found. Here is what would happen: you enter the exhibit and the first thing you see is a green flashing light. You automatically start to go in the direction it points, and then you realize with a foolish feeling gulp that this is the exhibit you came to see. You wonder if you have been made the butt of a fast...
John Barnes's design for a sign system for Widener is also a center of attention. Its components are described on the bottom floor of the Center along with an exhibit of letterings and materials. Of the other works, Couper Gardiner's controlled abstractions are attractive, as is Jon Rikert's Lipchitzian sculpture...