Word: exhibited
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Nothing was wrong with it, of course, and it is back for sure in The Russia House. Scarcely a dozen pages into this novel, Le Carre's twelfth, a document of potentially enormous importance has been passed from East to West during an exhibit of audiocassette wares in Moscow. Three grubby notebooks full of highly technical drawings and mathematical notations also contain some eye- popping assertions: "The American strategists can sleep in peace. Their nightmares cannot be realised. The Soviet knight is dying inside his armour." If true, such statements and the accompanying evidence pointing out the military incompetence...
...choosing to return to the mainland shortly before the Communist takeover in 1949. "The Red Guards branded me as a big capitalist and an undercover ((Taiwan)) spy," Liu, 71, recalls with a wry smile. "They kept me in solitary confinement for over a year and later organized a pictorial exhibit of my crimes." These included photos of various articles of Western-style dress belonging to Liu and his wife that Red Guards had found in the course of ransacking their apartment...
NOMADS: MASTERS OF THE EURASIAN STEPPE, Denver Museum of Natural History. The patterns of daily life among the ancient nomadic tribes of Central Asia are vividly reconstructed in this archaeological and ethnographic exhibit mounted by the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. June 4 through Sept...
Instead, the exhibit treats TV as a chapter in American social and economic history: it shows how the medium worked its way into the American home and what changes it wrought there. In the view of curator Larry Bird, who wrote the show's text, television was not just a masterpiece of marketing, it was a key shaper of the postwar consumer age. TV helped induce Americans, still reeling from the Depression and a world war, to start buying again...
Introduced at the end of a decade of economic hardship, TV was touted early on as a creator of jobs as much as a purveyor of entertainment. The centerpiece of the Smithsonian's exhibit is a display of old TV sets -- clunky wooden boxes with tiny, anemic-looking screens. But perhaps more significant is a selection of print advertisements that tried to sell Americans on this strange new gizmo...