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Locating objects for the telescope has also been bothersome. An exhaustive catalog of guide stars was built into Hubble's computer memory, enabling it to identify both its position in space and the object of its interest. A programmer, however, failed to update the information properly, and for weeks Hubble was looking left when it should have been looking right. That too has been fixed with a software Band...
...luxury. It is commonly used these days to describe ashtrays, bathrooms, cars, furnishings, graphics, holidays -- just about anything used in everyday life that is well- designed or distinctive. Frequently it means something outrageously expensive. G&M, a mail-order house in Bavaria, caters specifically to such tastes, offering a catalog of 273 "carefully selected luxury gifts," with a total value of $26.5 million; among them are a Tabriz rug for $964,000 and a gold-plated record player for $75,000. Dieter Schiwietz, a Hamburg plastic surgeon, says women -- and men -- seem to be having no trouble finding money...
...exhibition is fairly small, only 24 paintings and a large group of sketchbook drawings. It can be seen without sore feet and framed as a whole in one's mind. It is thorough, scholarly -- Jack Cowart, John Elderfield, Pierre Schneider and others have done a fine job on the catalog -- and, above all, full of exhilaratingly beautiful paintings that have lost none of their sensuous finesse and cerebral sharpness in the nearly 80 years since Matisse made them...
There will be a fantasy sequence involving the lead actor and a dagger. For $20,000, he could say, "Is that a dagger that I see before me? Methinks I recognize it from the Hammacher-Schlemmer catalog." (For $40,000, he will seize the implement and use it to slice some cheese.) The King also has trouble sleeping. A Sominex visual would be $20,000; for $40,000, he would actually swallow a pill; for $60,000, his insomnia can be cured, though this will take some rewriting...
Here, briefly, are some other items from our latest catalog...