A few weeks ago, in the room that serves as the museum's staging area, where objects to be displayed are uncrated and laid out on tables, I saw much of the An-sky collection in the raw, as it were, before it was given the particular configuration that would convey the story the Jewish Museum wanted told.
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Sony's PlayStation 2, slated to be the hottest of the hot amusements this season, hasn't even hit the shelves in many stores, and the toy industry is looking at what it figures will be a generally blah year with no " stand outs " drawing mobs of desperate shoppers into parking lots for midnight uncratings of some overpriced robot.
