Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...program to search for Earth-crossing comets and asteroids. Now S-L 9 has spurred Congress to listen. Last week the House Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space added an amendment to the NASA appropriation bill requiring the space agency to come up with a plan to find and catalog all menacing heavenly intruders within a decade...
...Secret Life of Salvador Dali, he took pains to spin out a fiction of his early originality. He wanted people to think he'd been found like Moses in the bulrushes, a miracle child: Salvador, Saviour. In part this did correspond to the truth. As Ian Gibson's fascinating catalog essay on Dali's early life makes clear, little Salvador was a horribly spoiled brat. Cosseted, deferred to, aware that a tantrum could get him anything he wanted, he grew up with serious delusions of creative omnipotence -- which, as time went by, coexisted with equally serious problems of sexual impotence...
...delegates from 180 nations will meet in Cairo for another go at the population problem. Advocacy groups and bureaucrats alike trumpet this conference as a breakthrough because it will focus on women's issues. In U.N.-speak, however, that translates into a catalog of desiderata ranging from appeals to eliminate sexual stereotypes to calls for men to do more housework -- nice-sounding proposals that are irrelevant to population control in many of the traditional cultures of the Third World...
...could never write De Kooning off. He came back in the late '70s with some big, rapturously congested landscape-body images with a deeper tonal structure that, though they do not support the comparisons to late Monet, Renoir, Bonnard "and, of course, Titian" that David Sylvester makes in his catalog essay, certainly confirm that the movement of De Kooning's talent was not on-off, but ebb and flow...
...read the full catalog, system users will need to telnet to or configure Gopher to connect to "courses. Harvard. edu (128.103.60.60). Then users should type "courses" at the login prompt...