Word: materiallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The museum is a vital repository not just of artistic highlights like old Kovacs shows but of the broadcast record of major historical events. "Can you imagine having had television cameras on Columbus' ships landing in the New World?" asks Robert Batscha, the museum's enthusiastic president. "It boggles the...
To bolster its own collection of Kovacs' work, the museum sifted through 200 tapes kept in storage by Edie Adams, Kovacs' widow and longtime co-star. She had rescued some of the material from ABC shortly after Kovacs' death, when the network was starting to record over it. "I took...
Enter Glen Kuban. "I decided that if it really was true, somebody ought to go down and document it better," he says. "If it wasn't true, then that ought to be demonstrated better too." He found that shallow grooves at the front of the tracks were typical of dinosaurs...
"In other words," says Kuban, "there was no question that a dinosaur was capable of making these elongated prints." He offers several explanations for the toelessness, all acceptable to paleontologists: soft mud might have filled the narrow toe marks soon after the dinosaur walked by. Then, too, some other material...
Each foreign transformation of American pop can be a small anthropological revelation. In New Delhi, the imitation McDonald's sell muttonburgers, while at Free Time, a Paris chain, the big beef pattie comes on baguette-shaped buns -- le longburger. A 15-year-old Indian schoolgirl had a hit record called...