Mr. Hess gathered objects supposedly or actually related to his father's 19th-century Georgia ancestors, who included a senator and his son, a general.
It would be enlightening to know what went into these decisions - and equally interesting to know whether the public, for whose benefit all this supposedly is, actually gives a damn.
Messrs. Bowles and Simpson had their moment — the annus horribilis of 2011, when Washington was in thrall to deficit scolds insisting that, in the face of record-high long-term unemployment and record-low borrowing costs, we forget about jobs and concentrate exclusively on a "grand bargain" that would supposedly (not actually) settle budget disputes for ever after.
In a supposedly dramatic but actually farcical scene, it is revealed that Oxford is actually Elizabeth's secret son as well as her lover.
He maintains that historical sources supposedly depicting waldrapps actually show red-billed choughs, an alpine species of crows.
A year later, Diana Spencer reversed the first two names of her betrothed in her wedding vows, and thus, as Prince Charles Philip supposedly later joked, actually married his father.
They teach the supposedly natural but actually quite difficult to master skills of soothing, bathing and breast-feeding infants, without any personal baggage.
The Bush administration's rejection of the Kyoto global warming treaty, supposedly bad news, actually could not have been scripted better.
The critique is leveled at a basic belief supposedly, and perhaps actually, held by some cyber-libertarians, that with enough access to Internet tools freedom will burst out everywhere.
Both have poured money into voter-registration drives, the Republican Party through its own efforts, the Democrats through supposedly independent but actually Democratic "527" groups (named after a loophole in the tax code).
