The equipment — including an assortment of helicopters, Naval Special Warfare fast boats, drones, submarines and the U.S.S.
In exchange, they get free cable TV service, including an assortment of channels (HBO and Showtime among them), and a discounted rate on Internet and phone service.
The ceremony has some eccentric traditions, including an assortment of extremely short lectures and an 8-year-old girl who cuts off droning speeches by politely repeating, "Please stop, I'm bored".
The exhibition was the idea of Hughes and Bainbridge's children Aaron, JoJo and Rudi and the museum is including an assortment of writing drafts, editions of her books and photographs from her friends and family taken throughout her life.
It seemed a sort of Pointillist, inductive assemblage, some of the items political and others personal, including an assortment of J.F.K.'s neckties and pieces of the scrimshaw that brought forth a whole book.
As if to compensate, he is surrounded by personal items of the utmost refinement, including an assortment of hats: a beaded mushroom-shaped number from Borneo, for example, and a smooth, spherical carved-wood cap from the Philippines that, like a G.I.'s helmet, protects the head and doubles as a soup bowl.
