NEW YORK Richard Martin is curator of "Jocks and Nerds," a NewYork City fashion exhibit that celebrates and spoofs 20th centurymen.
Mannequins have been transformed into rebels, workers, cowboys,military men, hunters, sportsmen, Joe College, businessmen, men abouttown and dandies, as well as jocks and nerds.
"Someone can be a businessman five days a week, but on Saturdayhe puts on his safari jacket and becomes the Ernest Hemingway ofGreat Neck," said Martin. "At night, he goes to a downtown club andbecomes a rebel."
Or perhaps a jock - depicted in photographs of SylvesterStallone as "Rocky," a reclining Jim Palmer pitching Jockeyunderwear, and a comic …

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