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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...
...folks at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History have come to the wise conclusion that "all of the above" is the worst possible answer. In an admirably focused and thoughtful new exhibit, "American Television: From the Fair to the Family, 1939-89," running until next April, the museum shies away from a nostalgic, you-must-remember- this approach. Imagine a survey of TV history with no mention of Milton Berle, Edward R. Murrow or the Kennedy-Nixon debates...
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...
After Darren Lowe's tip-in extended Brown's lead to 7-2. Brad Raymond, roaming inside a packed-in Bruin zone defense, finally got a chance to exhibit his low-post moves...