Word: indexed
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From the agony of the Vietnam War to the exhilarating fall of the Berlin Wall, a scrapbook of their work could serve as a comprehensive index to the most momentous events of the past quarter-century. Says editor-in-chief Jason McManus: "Church and Magnuson excel at the most demanding newsmagazine art: writing fast news covers. Masses of information must be quickly absorbed, mentally structured, and the relevant facts, anecdotes and quotes smoothly mortised into place while writing...
...America's first still-life artist, had been doing around 1815. But Harnett hit his stride in the 1880s, and in fact the most beautiful painting in this show, The Artist's Letter Rack, dates from 1879: an image of letters, visiting cards and a theater ticket, the meager index of an artist's social life, held by a crisscrossed square of pink tape to an unvarnished pine board. Everything is actual size, and the flatness of the board corresponds to the flatness of the painting, so that the illusion is nearly absolute. The pencil and chalk marks...
There were other hopeful signs: Factory orders rose 1.6%, the third jump in as many months. Similarly, the government's index of leading economic indicators was up for the third month in a row. Two surprising reports came from Detroit, where General Motors and Ford turned in their first profits in more than a year, though many analysts had expected the automakers to notch up another round of losses. Ford, which last posted a profit in the third quarter of 1990, reported a first-quarter profit of $338 million, buoyed by sales of cars and trucks at home...
...initial signs seem promising. Period-instrument ensembles, whose preoccupations often serve as an index of the most exciting and ground-breaking activity in classical music interpretation, are forging ahead in their revision of the Mozart canon. As the Mozart bicentenary wheezed to a close, John Eliot Gardiner embarked on a project to record all of the operas; his first release, Idomeneo, has solidified Mozart's claims to mastery of opera seria as well as opera buffa...
...enough to induce fidgeting in the average five-year old. Favorite Wildflowers Coloring Book, for instance, would be a pretty rotten gift if you were expecting a Barbie. On the first page, a table of contents tells colorists on what page they will find the Cow Vetch. Bonus: an Index of Scientific Names teaches the novice that the Cow Vetch is also called "Vicia cracca." Of course, every cool five-year-old already knows this...