Word: modeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...catching up in numerical terms. Both sides are pressing ahead with technical advances, although the U.S. has a substantial lead. One example: the newest Russian missile, the SS-13, is roughly the equivalent of the U.S Minuteman I, which is already being replaced with a later, much improved model. A still more modern weapon, containing multiple warheads capable of individual targeting (the MIRV missile), will be operational in about two years. Russia is also working on a MIRV. In the category of warheads available for use in what the military call a "wargasm"?a ghastly coinage meaning a sudden...
With becoming modesty, the study acknowledges that such measurements are crude and tentative. The social sciences are still new disciplines with expanding boundaries. According to Social Psychologist Raymond Bauer of Harvard, "Our hang-up is that we don't have a model for the social system anywhere as precise as what the economists have for the economic system." Nor do the social scientists have a measurement for social values akin to the dollar, although one possible theoretical unit is called the "utile," used by economists to weigh the price people would pay to avoid the sonic boom...
...Picasso's themes, that of artist and model, is omnipresent. In one engraving after another, men representing painters-or voyeurs-stare at shamelessly naked women; occasionally they indulge in intercourse with their ever-compliant models, palette and brushes still in hand. Reflecting the artist's Spanish heritage, a whole series of moody prints shows grandees on horseback abducting maidens. Satyrs abound...
...broadly stroked, flatly patterned pictures that any gallerygoer can identify across the room as a Manet. Marcellin Desboutin was a witty, talented engraver, and one of Manet's close friends. The uncharacteristically detailed features, the brooding eyes, perhaps reflect Manet's special affection for his model...
Lovers and Exceptions. Other pictures illuminate little-known aspects of the painters' careers. Besides a solid selection of Cézanne's familiar landscapes, Sāo Paulo also has an early study of a Negro model painted in 1866 that shows the young Cézanne was working even then at the plastic shapes, low-keyed values, and flat planes that would eventually supplant the impressionists. Paul Gauguin's stark Self-Portrait: Near to Golgotha illustrates the anguish that the artist felt when he arrived in Tahiti for his final sojourn-ill, unable to sell...