Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...library, gallery-goers enter a kind of artistic Coney Island. Here are shadow boxes, peepholes, in one of which, by raising a handle, is revealed a brilliantly lighted canvas by Swiss Painter Paul Klee. Another peep show, manipulated by turning a huge ship's wheel, shows a rotating exhibit of reproductions of all the works, including a miniature toilet for MEN, by screwball Surrealist Marcel Duchamp...
...plane was labeled the first capable of making a sustained flight carrying a man. Finally Orville Wright got so mad about it that in 1928 he sent the original Kitty Hawk machine to a London museum. Kindly Dr. Abbot, naturally perturbed at the loss of a possible exhibit, began to turn the matter over in his mind. After 14 years of gentle revolving, he made his decision last week: the Wright brothers were indeed the first to make a sustained flight in a heavier-than-air-machine. And he wondered gently, aloud, whether somebody or other might or might...
...cosmopolitan crowd of Manhattan art-lovers trampled each other's elegant toes last week to see an exhibit of paintings by Marc Chagall, one of the least known (in the U.S.) of important modernist painters, the man for whom the word surrealist was first coined...
...exhibit No. 1 was Chagall's 5½ ft. by 10 ft. Revolution, which was having its first showing. Gallerygoers, who clustered around this movable mural, saw Artist Chagall's mystical interpretation of what is going on in the world. Out of its upper right hand corner shaggy-haired Chagall gazed poker-faced at the weird doings below...
...than in most armies. There is also more of a chance for men to make suggestions. In Tabriz I interviewed 30-year-old Colonel Boris Ruhjov. He did not have a paper on his desk, only a field telephone and a map. He had no gestures, no habits to exhibit...