Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hipparcos satellite, has led scientists to speculate that the cosmos is older and perhaps 10 to 15 percent larger than previously believed. This possibility may help explain why some stars in the heavens appear older than the universe itself. To produce the celestial plan, know as the Hipparcos Catalog, the satellite studied the positions and movements of thousands of stars over an eight-year period beginning in 1989. After extensive analysis of the data, scientists produced a three dimensional map so exact that it is considered 100 times more precise than any previous celestial survey. The discoveries are just beginning...
...wise and generous storyteller, Garcia unfolds her tale by cutting back and forth between the eponymous sisters and the life of their father, a distinguished scientist pledged to catalog "every one of Cuba's nearly extinct birds." Reina and her daughter plot to escape their imprisoning paradise, while Constancia's husband Heberto, aging and mild-mannered, joins a brigade that dreams of recapturing it. Born in Havana and raised in the U.S., Garcia does soaring, zesty justice to the vagaries of both malfunctioning Cuba and daydreaming South Florida...
...visual practice and the widely accepted premise that all curating is somehow biased, it's no wonder that co-curators Lisa Phillips and Louise Neri staunchly resist labeling their exhibition a "survey." Even though the show feels more like a survey than any of the recent Biennials, in their catalog essay Phillips and Neri write that they tried to avoid making a "sampler" and instead looked for certain "millenial tendencies...
...through and make all the courses in the catalog bypasses, but we'd like to have about four departmental courses added at the end of each Core section," Hurwitz said. "It's not crazy or extreme, and there won't be any arm-twisting of professors...
That was the problem: so often, the natives didn't know who these people really were, or treat them with the deference they felt they had earned. In one of the excellent catalog essays for "Exiles and Emigres," the writer Lawrence Weschler compares their idea of themselves to "Roman nobility in the rustic provinces...as stubbornly patronizing and aloof as the locals were sometimes naive and gauche." The dachshund story sums them up--as it does the situation of most exiles in America in the late 1930s and '40s. Two dachshunds meet on the palisade in Santa Monica, California...