museum-piece

• “So anytime something interesting would happen, I'd write 25 or so one-page-aerogram versions of it over the next few days, all on a clunky, museum-piece manual typewriter.”

  An Interview with Dr. Robert Sapolsky

• “But as those traces have been swept away, so too has Berlin's museum-piece atmosphere.”

  The Guardian: In praise of... Berlin | Editorial

• “But if you were to sit down at that ancient, obsolete museum-piece of a machine today, you would be right at home.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Steve Jobs and the Coolest Show on Earth

• “Fiction has "become a museum-piece genre most of whose practitioners are more like cripplingly self-conscious curators or theoreticians than writers".”

  The Guardian: Jonathan Franzen picks up the torch for US literary tradition

• “The age of bedside doctoring in the middle of the night is past, the image a museum-piece of medical history.”

  The Huffington Post: Dan Agin: Junk Medicine: An American Fandango

• “Most of the editors I know in New York have no appetite for curating a "museum-piece genre", but they are being forced to confront the inconvenient truth that "literary fiction" is not the headline grabber it was.”

  The Guardian: Why Lee Siegel is wrong to declare the novel dead

• “For about a million reasons,' Siegel claimed, 'fiction has now become a museum-piece genre most of whose practitioners are more like cripplingly self-conscious curators or theoreticians than writers.”

  Archive 2010-07-04

• “America has its public piety and its multitude of thriving sects, Europe has its official secularism and its empty, museum-piece churches.”

  Crises of Faith

• “And a major force driving print to museum-piece status: The electronic products of software colossus Microsoft.”

  Forbes: Print Lives? Gates Foundation Backs 'Mercury' Buyer

• “One billion dollars has been plundered from Iraq's defence ministry in one of the largest thefts in history, The Independent can reveal, leaving the country's army to fight a savage insurgency with museum-piece weapons.”

  Friday, September 30, 2005

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