Word: embellishments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...room where children (and adults, too) can participate in hands-on activities. The room features Keith Haring coloring books, black paper and chalk which visitors can use to create "subway drawings" like Haring's, and huge black and white plastic-covered photographs of Madonna and Batman which children can embellish with colored markers to create Warhol-esque images. It is Mickey Mouse, though, that is the unifying image of this exhibition. His presence here guarantees an unusually accessible and fun museum experience...
...similar fix, Long's modern-day counterparts would convene focus groups to test various excuses. (The likely winner: "When I made that campaign promise, I had a serious substance-abuse problem, but now I'm leading my class at a nationally ranked recovery clinic.") Then a top speechwriter would embellish the confession, and a media consultant would orchestrate the requisite appearance on Geraldo. But all this high-priced talent could not alter reality -- a broken campaign promise is still a breach of trust. Lies are still lies. The trick is knowing how to recognize them...
Memory integrates the past with the present: desires, fantasies, fears, even mood can shade the recollection. People have a tendency to suppress unpleasant experiences and embellish events to make themselves feel more important or attractive. "Some of us like to see ourselves in a rosier light," observes psychologist Elizabeth Loftus of the University of Washington, "that we gave more to charity than we really did, that we voted in the last election when we really didn't, that we were nicer to our kids than we really were...
...student selects his or her best work during an entire year of study, and at term's end explains the choices. The portfolio approach places emphasis on overall accomplishment rather than ability to conquer a battery of tests. And students learn the virtues of improvement as they revise and embellish drafts of their work, as opposed to the cycle of cramming and forgetting that can accompany an exam regimen...
...lavishly, unrelentingly negative that it has set off a pair of fierce debates. The first centers on the former First Lady herself. Criticizing Nancy Reagan -- a First Lady America never really warmed to -- has become something of a cottage industry, and many of Kelley's charges merely reinforce and embellish those in earlier memoirs such as For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington by former White House chief of staff Donald Regan. "Had people liked Nancy Reagan in the first place they wouldn't be susceptible to all this dirt," says James Rosebush, the First Lady's former chief...