Word: objections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal government does not object to MIT's buying a supercomputer, said Commerce Department spokesman Desiree Tucker. "The letter was meant to assure MIT that we had no problem with [the purchase]," Tucker said...
Another puzzle that the exhibit depicts the long history of is the dexterity puzzle. This very simple puzzle--with four balls in a circular maze--caused a craze in the 1880s almost on the scale of the Rubik's Cube fad a century later. The object was to put the four balls in the center of the maze, or place the "pigs...
...more eclectic type of puzzles in the exhibition are the "appearing/disappearing object" puzzles...
Four seperate displays are dedicated to three-dimensional geometric sequence puzzles. Perhaps the best-known and most obvious example of this kind is Erno Rubik's cube puzzle. That wonderful cuboid object, first marketed in the U.S. in the early 1980s, swept the globe, selling millions of copies in the process. It not only maddened the people who could not solve the easy-looking puzzle, but it spawned a generation of whiz-kids who could solve it in under a minute. Of course, some of these genuises wanted more. So manufacturers offered Cube spinoffs in odd shapes...
...There is a distance between the artist and the object. I wanted [the students] to break down the barrier between the artist and object," the VES lecturer said. Taho added, "Because they will have eaten it, the chicken will be a part of [the students'] bodies. This experience will expand their imagination and understanding...