Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MISSION: High-altitude voyeurism. The reconnaissance plane collects multisensor photo, electro-optic, infrared and radar imagery--day or night and in all kinds of weather. It's been used to peek at everyone from Khrushchev to Castro to Ho Chi Minh, left. Among its more benign photo ops: floods, volcanoes and crops...
...Gerolimatos even leaves her post sometimes when she wants to grab lunch herself. "When I let the students check their own card, they swipe it too fast," she complains, "and my computer starts to go a little crazy." Gerolimatos cheerfully greets each individual student, without having to cheat and peek at the names on the card. Unfortunately, few checkers have adopted this level of enthusiasm...
...Goliath, which was shipped to a relative's farm in Cardiff, N.Y., for burial. After a year of underground seasoning, the figure was "discovered," and Cousin Stubby's farm became a combination Lourdes and sideshow. Suckers and scholars (not always distinguishable) lined up to pay a dollar a peek...
...peek out of the curtain at the people and say something like 'Anybody seen Joe?'" he said. "Then you take a hand with a monster glove and pull your head back into the curtain...
...show holds out and leaves us to find satisfaction in catalogs of his later work--or in the recognition that we've just had a peek at a remarkably ambitious artist's struggle for self-definition. Though this may seem like a highly academic justification for spending an afternoon and the price of admission, Picasso may be one of the few artists who can make us appreciate this process almost as much as the final rewards.Photo courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts and Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society, New YorkPicasso's "Woman in a Chemise" shows signs...