Word: taxidermist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They don't hold White House lunches the way they used to at the beginning of the century. On Jan. 1, 1907, for example, the guest list was as follows: a Nobel prizewinner, a physical culturalist, a naval historian, a biographer, an essayist, a paleontologist, a taxidermist, an ornithologist, a field naturalist, a conservationist, a big-game hunter, an editor, a critic, a ranchman, an orator, a country squire, a civil service reformer, a socialite, a patron of the arts, a colonel of the cavalry, a former Governor of New York, the ranking expert on big-game mammals in North...
Though the museum hasn't had a taxidermist on staff since before World War II, the museum accumulated plenty of specimens before then. Animals are displayed somewhat hap-hazardly, crowded into cases with other animals from the same continent, but not necessarily similar habitats. No effort is made to contextualize the displays. There are no expansive diaramas with fake vistas extending to the horizon. The rhinocerous and the elephant, the gazelle and the gnu, all share a partitioned glass case with a sky-blue backdrop. Are renovations in store? Perhaps the MCZ will repaint the cases, said Bob Davidson, Assistant...