Word: cataloger
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Young fans will no doubt swoon, but some parents, like Ted Fishman of Chicago, are a bit alarmed by the merchandising mania. His 10-year-old daughter Elly has already circled half the inventory in the latest catalog for her holiday wish list. "These dolls are supposed to represent wholesomeness and frugality," he notes wryly. But slave girl Addy's ironstone compote set ($50) "costs more than a real set would." In that way, at least, these dolls are thoroughly modern...
...They are vessels that you walk into," says Serra. Well, yes, if vessel means ship rather than pot. They hark back to, and in a sense make concrete, a vivid childhood memory that is quoted in the show's catalog. Serra's father worked in a California shipyard, and the son got to see large new craft being launched. "It was a moment of tremendous anxiety," Serra wrote in 1988, "as the oiler rattled, swayed, tipped and bounced into the sea, half submerged, to then raise and lift itself and find its balance. The ship went through a transformation from...
...join the new globally enlightened class on campus, you may have to lose your meat-eating ways. You may even have to abandon your North Face equipment and start subscribing to the J. Peterman catalog. Drastic changes can be quite unnerving, but considering how fixed our lives become once we've begun our journey to college graduation, an image makeover is probably easier than changing concentrations...
...from it. Nathan Hale, a psychoanalytic historian, retracted his name, saying the petition had become "an excuse for indiscriminate Freud bashing." Another signer, author Oliver Sacks, said in an interview that he was distressed to be "linked to the angry anti-Freudians"; he has written an essay for the catalog that accompanies the exhibit...
Roth says only minimal changes were made in the exhibit, though the catalog now includes several additional essays critical of Freud. Swales, who bridles at suggestions that he wanted the show killed, still thinks "the public has been terribly shortchanged." But another prominent Freud critic, Frederick Crews, who called the original effort a "propaganda campaign" in need of rehauling, says Roth has so far made impressive "good-faith efforts" to create a balance...