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Why hasn't one of the sponsor foundations funded such a study? The overriding vision for the Parkway foresees development of a "museum mile" that would include not only the Barnes but an Alexander Calder museum, which is having some trouble getting off the ground.

Tóibín does not indulge in detached amusement:

The ocean, specifically the Texas Gulf Coast, is the subject of two museum exhibitions.

The museum presents the images less as art, or even a cohesive exhibition, than as a complement to everything else in its halls.

Somehow the big stopper, perhaps bemused by Rubio’s failed flick, couldn’t make the obvious clearance and the ball arrived obligingly for Tam McManus at the back post.

Here's another characteristic passage that combines the memory of adolescent discomfort with a distanced amusement.

Thus "Ripley's Game" sets up a gruesomely funny set piece in which a bemused Ripley appears just in time to come to the aid of his hapless puppet.

The strait-laced Germans are not amused and his position now looks precarious.

BrewCity itself has specific letters of intent from the Museum of Beer and Brewing (www.brewingmuseum.org) and the Hofbrauhaus microbrewery and restaurant (see www.hofbrauhausnewport.com for Cincinnati’s version).

Surly museum security personnel were often singled out as candidates for firing, as were garrulous baristas who had persuaded themselves that taking orders for chai lattes somehow put them at the epicenter of the entertainment industry.

People were fed up with the Liberal haughtiness and hardly amused by being sent to the polls much earlier than necessary.

The Cross was presented by the poet Michael Symmons Roberts, who suggested that, while other ancient symbols on clay, stone or vellum quietly fade in museums, "this most gruesome Roman instrument of torture continues to be part of the backcloth of our lives."

The mother-son duo go through the great museums of the continent's culture capitals -- London, Paris, Rome, Florence, Vienna and Venice -- while Maureen makes a show of working on her own updated version of the guidebooks to such places for the cultured 19th-century traveler.

. . . I occasionally went to the museums, not to see anything in particular, but to wander amidst the subdued lighting and whispered conversation where I felt strangely at home.

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