Word: calendaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be a sad year for lovers of the Mutter Museum calendar, produced since 1993 by the fascinating medical museum in Philadelphia. The award-winning calendar highlighted objects from the museum's collection, including the skeleton of twins fused at the head and a wax model of a patient with syphilitic leukoplakia of the tongue (above). The calendar sold thousands of copies and won fans as diverse as the Las Vegas magician Teller (of Penn & Teller) and Harvard University professor of biology Stephen Jay Gould, who calls them "works of art." The calendars earned as much as $15,000 annually...
...however, Dr. Marc Micozzi, executive director of the college, has canceled the calendar, deciding that it presents the wrong image. Gretchen Worden, director of the Mutter, had hoped otherwise: "Our goal was to promote the museum and the College of Physicians to a wider audience--and we achieved that...
...gift giving, and so it seems fitting to ask: Is there a celebrity who has given us more than Martha Stewart? For the past five years she has gently elevated our taste with her monthly life-style manual, MARTHA STEWART LIVING, even sharing with us her instructive personal calendar ("December 20th: Pot up pastel calla lilies and freesias; December 26th: Off to Egypt with godchildren"). This year she has also graced us with her Martha by Mail product catalog, each item--like the set of "Araucana egg soaps"--a homage to muted chic. And now we have her second annual...
...once again the Christmas season. I've brought out the (on-line) Advent calendar. I've annoyed my downstairs neighbors by jigging to "Christmas in Kilarney" (it's a reasonably authentic rendition, too). I've gone Christmas shopping...
...past, but we're all getting older. With the same wit he used so well in civic protest, Guthrie demonstrates how to fade into obscurity while inviting no pity. If you missed him this year--and if you want to get old without getting stupid--mark next year's calendar...