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Shrieking children and splashing water hardly typifies you usual metropolitan museum exhibit. But then again, with its leapfrog computer games and automobile video displays, the Children's Museum of Boston is not your typical marble and musty chamber...
...fact, with rubber dolphins and cascading waterfalls marking the museum's new exhibit on the physical properties of water, the children's cultural center has been catching a lot of attention lately as Bostonians and tourists alike seek a new way to escape the summer heat wave...
Summer Splash, as the new exhibit is called, is the first show the Children's Museum has moved outdoors to the piers that separate Museum Wharf from the Boston Harbor. And, it has been so successful in attracting both tourists and locals that Museum Publicity Director Gail Eaton says it may one day become a permanent part of the museum's exhibits...
Stalin despised it as "decadent bourgeois formalism" and had it locked away. Khrushchev called it excrement and branded its creators "pederasts." Brezhnev ordered bulldozers to smash it into the ground at an outdoor exhibit. Such has been the fate of Russia's modernist art at the hands of dictators bent on enforcing their philistine tastes with the whole armamentarium of the totalitarian state. Even Mikhail Gorbachev has found that the tradition of putting down avant-garde art dies hard among cultural bureaucrats. As a result, the visual arts have been far slower than literature and music to benefit from glasnost...
...partly because of it -- Octogenarian Harry Lipsig is perhaps the winningest liability lawyer in America, as well as the founder and head of the nation's largest personal- injury firm. Although he does not appear in court in all cases taken by his firm, Lipsig was delighted to be Exhibit A in the Chernow case, which brought out all his instinct for courtroom spectacle. "If you bore the jury, you have lost the case," says Lipsig, who just a few years ago helped win a client's lawsuit by leaping several feet up and back to perch on a courtroom...