And they can even keep track of a country's agricultural production by recognising what crops are grown where as Italian olive farmers once discovered to their cost when they were caught overclaiming on subsidies.Photographs of the earth from space have also had another, more subtle, globalising effect: they have helped to remind people that they do, indeed, inhabit a single globe.
It can take days, or weeks to finish a single globe.
Who but Saul Bellow could combine, in a single, globe- and decade-spanning paragraph, criminology, crocodiles, marijuana, a Thanksgiving turkey, and a Lincoln Continental?
The upshot one year into the new Academy voting system: Globes voters can't anoint a future Oscar winner and can't stop a picture like "District 9," which last year had a single Globes nomination (for its script) yet was nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards.
"It's all over the place," says Michael Barker, co-president of Sony Pictures Classics, which saw four of its films — "Son of Saul," "Grandma," "The Lady in the Van" and "Infinitely Polar Bear" — each win a single Globes nomination.
Rush's show at MUTEK opened with a microscopic display of a single shifting globe, which gradually evolved into the remote retreat of a frozen landscape.
An art lover who acted as muse and mentor to much of the modernist movement; a single, divorced, globe-trotting Jewish woman who built a collection during the era of Hitler and Moseley; Peggy Guggenheim was, as Gore Vidal puts it, "the last of Henry James' transatlantic heroines Daisy Miller with rather more balls".
An art-lover who acted as muse and mentor to much of the modernist movement; a single, divorced, globe-trotting Jewish woman who built a collection during the era of Hitler and Moseley; Peggy Guggenheim was, as Gore Vidal puts it, "the last of Henry James' transatlantic heroines – Daisy Miller with rather more balls".
An art lover who acted as muse and mentor to much of the modernist movement; a single, divorced, globe-trotting Jewish woman who built a collection during the era of Hitler and Moseley: Peggy Guggenheim was, as Gore Vidal puts it, "the last of Henry James's transatlantic heroines Daisy Miller with rather more balls".
"Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center — an equal earth which all men occupy as equals," he wrote.
The British skipper Ellen MacArthur, currently second to Michel Desjoyeaux of France in the Vendée Globe single-handed, nonstop round-the-world yacht race, had a collision this week with an unidentified submerged object.
