Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goal of the exchange is for each country to see how the other perceives itself, its landscapes, its history," said Dee Bennett, a spokesman for the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibit Service, which is acting as curator of the collection during the U.S. showing...
...other galleries chosen to house the collection are the David and Alfred Smart Gallery of the University of Chicago and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington...
...kind of pro- Americanism. The Rambo look is all the rage among guerrillas in Beirut. The Sandinistas are American baseball nuts. Says Peruvian Writer Augusto Ortiz de Zevallos: "You see Marxist-Leninists with T shirts that say COCA-COLA." In the view of Marc Pachter, a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, foreigners may turn to the left precisely because they like American pop so much. At least in Europe, argues Pachter, youthful political anti-Americanism is a way of "justifying their enormous thirst for American pop culture. As long as they can bad-mouth the society that produces the stuff...
...discovery will "revise theories of everything that involves kinematic distances--measurements of brightness of stars, densities, size and mass of gas, dust, plasma, pulsars, stars, nebula, anything that's in our galaxy," said Carl Gwinn, one of the study's participants from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
Three other Harvard-Smithsonian astronomers, James Moran, Mark Reid and Matthew Schneps also took part in the experiment. In addition, Dennis Downes of the Institut de Radio Astronomie Milimetrique in Grenoble, France, Reinhard Genzel of the University of California at Berkeley, and Bernt Ronnag of the Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden participated in the work...