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

    In praise of... Berlin | Editorial 2011

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

    Steve Jobs and the Coolest Show on Earth David Gelernter 2011

  • 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 2010

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

    Jonathan Franzen picks up the torch for US literary tradition 2010

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

    Dan Agin: Junk Medicine: An American Fandango 2010

  • 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.

    Why Lee Siegel is wrong to declare the novel dead 2010

  • '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 Bill Crider 2010

  • 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 2007

  • 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 2007

  • 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 2007

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