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Bobcat display revamped, features hands-on education By Fred Poyner Art Critic Details, details and still mere de tails marked Sunday’s opening of the newly renovated Bobcat display at the University' of Nebraska State Museum’s Hall of Nebraska Wildlife. As one of the first such displays planned for a face-lift, the Bobcat ex hibit now features a skeleton mold of the animal imbedded in “stone*” addi tional birds, insects and plaits native to the Bobcat’s environment and more aesthetic refinements to the area, such as indirect lighting and painting of the Nebraska landscape. Patricia Freeman, curator of zool ogy at Morrill Hall, provided an over view of the project after the weekend • — —— - opening, in which she discussed the future scope of the exhibit renovations. Eventually, the entire Hall of Wild life will be revised according to the new look of the Bobcat display, which draws the visitor in with its construc tion and its emphasis on physical in teraction. Newly added touch buttons that trigger bird calls, as well as the durability of the Bobcat skeleton to visitor contact, make this type of in teraction an enjoyable and educational experience. At the display’s opening, Museum Director James Estes stressed the im portant rote teamwork played in the timely completion of the display. The combination of museum volunteers, staff, faculty and student interns has resulted in a standard which will con tinue as work on the rest of the wild life exhibits continues in the future. -- j NEBRASKANS AGAINST THE DEATH S ( PENALTY FOUNDATION PRESENTS 1 / Dr. Michael Radelet as the Keynote f ( Speaker at the 1996 Annual Dinner. | WHEN: Nov. 16, Reception at 6:00 1 WHERE: Trinity United Methodist 1 Church, 16th & A Steets M COST: $20, $15 for Students/Low Income % Call 474-6575 for reservations. I Sandy Dunes Miss Nude Kentucky Featured in Score's Naughty Neighbors, Bust Out and Showgirl! Over 15 Theme Shows! Appearing Nov. 11-16 Just north of 48th & Superior ' 1|| ' ; ' • ’ ' -"JlrJ., . . ■ ■ r-. Antiques recovered, sold at charity BEIJING (AP) — Six antiques belonging to the widow of a former Chinese president—her wily pos sessions salvaged from the ravages of Mao Tbe-tung’s radical follow ers — were sold at auction Tues day for $68,000. Wang Guangmei decided to put the five porcelain pieces and an ivory brush holder up for sale to benefit a charity that helps poor peasant mothers find jobs, said her daughter, Liu Ting. Wang’s elegance is legendary, and was believed to have inspired jealous rage in Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing. But the75-year-old Wang, (mce jailed as a spy, stays out of the spotlight and did not attend the auc tion put on by her daughter’s com pany. “She never comes to these things,” Liu said. The actioned pieces were gifts from Wang's wealthy capitalist fam ily when she married Communist revolutionary Liu Shaoqi in 1948. Nineteen years later, President Liu became the target of Commu nist Party Chairman Mao’s purges during the Cultural Revolution. Youthful supporters known as Red Guards ransacked Wang and Liu’s home and dragged the couple away for interrogation. Wang spent 11 years in prison. She did not know until after her re lease in 1978 that Liu had died in 1969 — denied medical treatment as “the No. 1 capitalist roader" and a “lackey of imperialism.” After Wang’s release, the gov ernment returned the six small items from her dowry. Wang’s pieces—a 1,000-year old Song Dynasty porcelain bowl, and two bowls, two plates and the brush holder from the Qing, China’s last dynasty—were among the few items that attracted spirited bidding at Sungari International’s auction. With relics from 5,000 years of history, China has many artifacts to sell ami the Communist government has been keen to cash in on the busi ness. Auction houses have sprouted up in recent years, and Chinese, newly rich from 18 years of capi talist-style economic reforms, have become prime buyers. The company put about 800 paintings, porcelains and other rel ics up for sale Monday and Tues day. Many expensive items, such as 2,500-year-old bronzes, were with drawn because of lackluster bid ding. A 200-year-old silver-and wood bowl sold for $26,500, 50 percent more than its estimated worth. Allow extra room ^ between vehicles during winter weather. I ■ I Steve P tone and Sanctified Shells Friday, N Tickets: 402-472 M-Fll-5^0pn UED CENTER ri_. w_ Lied Center programming is supported by the Friends of Lied and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, MkMmerica Arts Alliance and the Nebraska Arts Council. . . .. . Newspaper Open Air out of business NEW YORK (AP)—Open Air, a quirky newspaper created by an eccen tric multimillionaire, is out of business after five money-losing months, al though its publisher promised Tuesday that it will return in January. Staffers arriving Monday found the office doors padlocked and signs posted in the hallway announcing they were “terminated, effective immedi ately.” Fifty employees lost their jobs without warning. Publisher Abe Hirschfeld said there had been tremendous problems with distribution, and that he and the paper’s editors clashed over its content and fi nancial plan. !V “I told them, ‘If you don’t want to follow the plan, why don’t you open your own newspapers?”’ Hirschfeld said Tuesday. Hirschfeld, who made his fortune in real estate, said he could write one thing that his staff could not: “Checks.” He said he will bring a new version of Open Air back in January. Open Air was atypical, with no edi torial page, no op-ed page, and no let ters column. 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