Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEETHOVEN: EARLY YEARS THROUGH THE EROICA (Smithsonian Collection of Recordings). Just what the world needs: more Beethoven. But wait. This collection of chamber and symphonic works is played with vim and vigor on original instruments: Beethoven like he oughta...
...Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington has been a godsend to the modelers who search for authenticity. Before the Smithsonian developed its library filled with plans, statistics and helpful researchers, hobbyists had to dig for the data themselves. That often proved difficult. Between the Wright brothers' first flight and World War II, literally thousands of planes were designed and built in small shops and barns, only to plunge into obscurity nearly as fast as they were launched. Scale modelers are especially eager to resurrect these relics...
After Folkways Founder Moses Asch died in 1986, his company might have slipped off too. Folkways was an ideal more than a thriving business. The Smithsonian Institution wanted to keep the label going under its own aegis, but the proposition was financially daunting. So Bob Dylan and Folklorist and Smithsonian Official Ralph Rinzler came up with the idea of a commemorative album. Instead of ponying up, musicians were asked to contribute their talents -- and royalties -- to help subsidize the Smithsonian investment and keep Folkways flowing. The result is not only a square deal but also a spectacular record...
...team, led by David Latham of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., found evidence of what might be a gigantic planet 20 times as large as Jupiter orbiting a star 550 trillion miles away. The Canadians reported nine stars with possible planets within 588 trillion miles of earth; they calculated that one of them was about the size of Jupiter...
Already, just the names prompt small chuckles of remembrance: Alexander Haig, Pat Robertson, Pete du Pont, Joseph Biden, Bruce Babbitt, Paul Simon. Has it really been just four months since Iowa anointed Richard Gephardt and Bob Dole as the favorites? Before Primary Season 1988 is carted off to the Smithsonian, it seems fitting to step back and ponder some lessons of the campaign that was. After all, as the Duchess instructed Alice in Wonderland, "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find...