Word: cataloger
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...Royal Institute of British Architects, the international $100,000 Pritzker Prize and some of England's and West Germany's choicest commissions, including an addition to the Tate Gallery in London and a science center in the monumental heart of West Berlin. He is the subject of a lavish catalog with commentary, to be published next month, titled James Stirling: Buildings and Projects (Rizzoli; $45). Philip Johnson, the doyen of his profession, has endorsed Stirling as a longtime wunderkind who is now "a mature leader of world architecture...
...things are going, FORTUNE may soon have to publish a 500 Most Wanted list. During the past few months the news has been filled with tales of business schemes and scandals, of corporate intrigue and downright crime. The offenses make up a catalog of chicanery: cheating on Government defense contracts, check-writing fraud, bogussecurities dealing, tax dodges, insider trading and money laundering. Among the culprits: General Electric, E.F. Hutton, Bank of Boston and General Dynamics. Once powerful and respected executives, including Jake Butcher, the Tennessee banker, and Paul Thayer, the former LTV chairman, are now facing the humbling prospect...
Unaccountably, Spacks' catalog of great gossips omits Marcel Proust, the greatest eavesdropper and scandalmonger of them all, as well as James Joyce, who, like so many of his fellow Dubliners, regarded rumor and innuendo as meat and drink. Still, her thesis holds. No one, from the whisperers about Socrates in ancient Athens to the viewers of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, could ever resist burbling about persons not present. If the rumors are written down, they are called gossip. If they are written up, they are called literature...
Some 40 miles east of Tripoli, a complex of white stone buildings sparkles in the sunlight. Beyond the main entrance a courtyard opens onto a verdant Mediterranean garden. One of the surrounding walls is decorated with a brightly colored, stylized representation of Mendeleev's periodic table, the catalog of the elements. The attractive complex, however, is neither a jet- setter's hideaway nor a university campus. An inscription within the periodic table proclaims, "The Revolution Forever!" and outside the gate soldiers mount guard. Welcome to Libya's Tajura Nuclear Research Center...
Question: What do the following have in common? The Sears, Roebuck Mail Order Catalog. Collected Poems 1947-1980 of Allen Ginsberg. Elvis, by Albert Goldman. Jane Fonda's Workout Book. Iacocca. The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss. The Rand McNally Road Atlas. The Union of Concerned Scientists' The Fallacy of Star Wars. An eclectic selection of summer reading? Not quite. They are among the 313 books chosen by a committee of ten literary figures for an exhibition at the Moscow International Book Fair called "America Through American Eyes...