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...efficiency of millions of innocent readers. Furthermore, it has been claimed that my client is remorseless. The government asserts that his new novel, The Burden of Proof, contains a plot even more fiendishly complicated and irresistible than its predecessor. The prosecution would have you believe that said novel, Exhibit B, constitutes an imminent threat to the public well-being and to the gross national product...
This is the message of a new $10 million permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington. Titled "Information Age: People, Information & Technology," the show brings together 700 objects and artifacts, ranging from Morse's telegraph to an early Apple computer. Through re-created scenes and videos, the exhibition tries to capture the mood of each period during the information age, which has repeatedly confounded both the hopes and fears of society. "Our goal was to display technology as a human enterprise," says curator David Allison, "subject to all the foibles and failures...
...only because of the human tendency to fit new events into familiar categories. In a celebrated 1950s experiment, psychologist Jerome Bruner showed that ordinary people would "see" a red ace of spades as a regular black one if it was salted into an otherwise normal deck. The Smithsonian exhibit demonstrates that inventors are fooled in the same...
...time when craft is flourishing, and when the Bauhaus' straight lines have been tied in postmodern knots, Tiffany's plummy palate, iridescent surfaces and flowing shapes are attracting record museum throngs and stratospheric auction prices. "Masterworks" was the most popular exhibit ever at the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery in Washington; some 225,000 people visited it during its five-month stay. At Christie's a pond- lily glass table lamp brought $550,000, a record auction price for a Tiffany work...
What good is a Botticelli by another name? The British Museum offers a panoramic exhibit of fakes, including many that have fooled the experts and come close to equaling the originals...