Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computer user to create an electronic "passport" that identifies him to online marketers without revealing his name. The user tailors the passport to his own interests, so if he is passionate about fly-fishing and is cruising through L.L. Bean's Website, the passport will steer the electronic-catalog copy toward fishing gear instead of, say, Rollerblades...
...impact on your own life. How about the UPS strike? Yes, of course, a responsible citizen is concerned with analyzing the role played by part-time jobs in the American economy, but perhaps not as concerned as he is with whether or not those two polo shirts from the catalog company--one in puce, one in taupe--will arrive in time for the most important weekend of the summer...
...infrastructure; French-trained Khmer curators were murdered; the National Museum was reduced to a bat-infested wreck, its roof caving in, and abandoned for four years after 1975. (It has since been partially repaired by the Australian government, but, as one of the contributors to the show's excellent catalog bluntly observes, "The museum staff lacks the expertise and resources to repair and conserve the sculpture, or to catalogue the collection. [This] can only be rectified with international help.") As if this weren't enough, a major problem around the monuments of Angkor is the land mines and other explosives...
...fetched little more than $3 million in the sort of forced liquidation that the IRS and other creditors would have soon brought about. Unfortunately for his heirs, Elvis had found one particularly short-sighted way to generate quick income in his declining years: in 1973 he sold his entire catalog of recordings--the performances themselves--to RCA for $5 million, an absurdly low price considering that he had sold 1 billion records, more than any other musician in U.S. history. Just how good an investment this was for RCA is strikingly evident today: Elvis remains, in 1997, its most successful...
...film's own behind-the-scenes story is also instructive. When producer Carlo Ponti saw the finished film, he was upset at the absence of Bardot nudity. Godard then shot the famous opening scene, of Bardot asking Piccoli if he likes her eyes, breasts, ass--a catalog that commercializes her body, just as Ponti demanded--and Piccoli replying that he loves her "totally, tenderly, tragically...