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...especially non-contemporary works, all the more reason not to miss this treat. The museum's PR person, Janet Cox, says her art friends all think that the Fogg's Homers and Sargents are as good as the ones hanging in the MFA, and Janet wouldn't try to fool you. The exhibit has to come down soon because the watercolors don't do so well during the summer, so hurry on over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GALLERIES | 7/16/1974 | See Source »

...this circle, it's right-on to piss-in-the-sink. More likely you'd be ashamed to own up to the up-tightness signaled by a negative reply. The sense of shocked relief and release that the real Lenny's audiences felt as he ventured like a holy fool over still almost inviolable taboos and came back intact is replaced by affable self-congratulations. We're all one big hip and happy family...

Author: By Willy Forbath, | Title: The Re-Making of Lenny Bruce | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

Pinneo could readily pick out specific commands. But, like fingerprints, the patterns varied sufficiently from one human test subject to another to fool the computer. Pinneo found a way to deal with this problem by storing a large variety of patterns in the computer's memory. When the computer had to deal with a fresh pattern, it could search its memory for the brain waves most like it. So far the S.R.I, computer has been taught to recognize seven different commands-up, down, left, right, slow, fast and stop. Working with a total of 25 different people, it makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mind-Reading Computer | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...been working too hard," said Hubert Humphrey. "I would say to him as a friend: 'Cool it, stay with it. You'll get a fair hearing.' " In saltier fashion, 81-year-old George Aiken, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, commented: "The goddam fool. Can't he take it? Why that's part of the business -being criticized." Senator William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, advised "everyone in this distracted city to calm down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Week the Cloud Burst | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

...meetings consisted of a re-hash of all the platitudes of the past delivered mainly by the same kind of people (in some instances the same individuals) who have made the Urban Design Conferences of the past such a failure and bore. The new title and graphics did not fool anyone. While the previous Conferences were free, now the Dean at the Graduate School of Design was charging $100 per person--the only thing that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLOBAL AFFAIRS | 5/22/1974 | See Source »

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