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...What the IRAS survey indicated," says Team Astronomer Bruce Wilking of the University of Missouri, "was that this source was 40 degrees above absolute zero (-233 degreesC), extremely cold by our standards but warm enough by interstellar | standards that it led us to think this would be an interesting object to look at." Best of all, the object, designated IRAS 16293-2422, was relatively close, making it easier to see finer detail...
Christina's World also helped publicize Wyeth's obsessive fidelity to the people he painted. As the artist put it last week, "The more I'm with an object -- whether it's a model or a piece of the country -- the more I begin to see what I've been blind to. You start to get what's beneath it. You see deeper within it." He used Christina and her younger brother Alvaro as subjects from 1940 to 1968; Anna and Karl Kuerner, Wyeth's neighbors in Chadds Ford, from 1948 to 1979; teenage Siri Erickson, another Cushing resident, from...
...relation to them. "People are going to think, particularly with this group of paintings, that it's a sexual love. It's not. We think of love only as two human beings in love. But it isn't in love. It's love. It's love toward an object. It can be a love toward those shells," he says, pointing nearby. "It's a love of warmth, of finding something precious. It's like a wonderful animal, a dog that will come up and sit in your lap and you pet its head. This is something we've lost...
...Except in Anglophile circles, many consider it standoffish, if not rude, to address a fellow worker as Mr. Jones. On the other hand, a fair number of people still dislike being patted on the shoulder and called Harry by someone who is trying to sell something. Women, in particular, object to being addressed as Susan by a doctor who would look startled at being called Jack. There are no doubt millions of people, notably in-laws, who have never succeeded in figuring out what to call one another...
...those who object," added Laxalt, "there will be another election...