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From the Ted Talk by Liz Diller: A new museum wing ... in a giant bubble

Unscramble the Blue Letters


There is a huge disconnect, we believe, between the communicative and duiscvrsie space of the Mall and the museums that line it to either side. And that is that those museums are usually psvaise, they have passive rltaiphsenois between the museum as the presenter and the audience, as the receiver of information. And so you can see dinosaurs and insects and collections of locomotives and all of that, but you're really not involved; you're being talked to.

When rcrihad Koshalek took over as director of the Hirshhorn in 2009, he was determined to take advantage of the fact that this museum was sited at the most uinuqe place: at the seat of power in the U.S. And while art and politics are ielrhtenny and imltiiclpy together always and all the time, there could be some very special relationship that could be forged here in its uniqueness.

Open Cloze


There is a huge disconnect, we believe, between the communicative and __________ space of the Mall and the museums that line it to either side. And that is that those museums are usually _______, they have passive _____________ between the museum as the presenter and the audience, as the receiver of information. And so you can see dinosaurs and insects and collections of locomotives and all of that, but you're really not involved; you're being talked to.

When _______ Koshalek took over as director of the Hirshhorn in 2009, he was determined to take advantage of the fact that this museum was sited at the most ______ place: at the seat of power in the U.S. And while art and politics are __________ and __________ together always and all the time, there could be some very special relationship that could be forged here in its uniqueness.

Solution


  1. discursive
  2. unique
  3. passive
  4. relationships
  5. inherently
  6. richard
  7. implicitly

Original Text


There is a huge disconnect, we believe, between the communicative and discursive space of the Mall and the museums that line it to either side. And that is that those museums are usually passive, they have passive relationships between the museum as the presenter and the audience, as the receiver of information. And so you can see dinosaurs and insects and collections of locomotives and all of that, but you're really not involved; you're being talked to.

When Richard Koshalek took over as director of the Hirshhorn in 2009, he was determined to take advantage of the fact that this museum was sited at the most unique place: at the seat of power in the U.S. And while art and politics are inherently and implicitly together always and all the time, there could be some very special relationship that could be forged here in its uniqueness.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
public space 3
democratic air 2


Important Words


  1. advantage
  2. art
  3. audience
  4. collections
  5. communicative
  6. determined
  7. dinosaurs
  8. director
  9. disconnect
  10. discursive
  11. fact
  12. forged
  13. hirshhorn
  14. huge
  15. implicitly
  16. information
  17. inherently
  18. insects
  19. koshalek
  20. line
  21. locomotives
  22. mall
  23. museum
  24. museums
  25. passive
  26. politics
  27. power
  28. presenter
  29. receiver
  30. relationship
  31. relationships
  32. richard
  33. seat
  34. side
  35. sited
  36. space
  37. special
  38. talked
  39. time
  40. unique
  41. uniqueness