Word: aluminum
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...Allante got its start in 1982, when Cadillac engaged the venerated Pininfarina firm, best known for its Ferrari body styles, to design the car and build its outer shell. The car's planners searched all over the world for the components, settling on an electronics system from Japan and aluminum hood and deck lid from Switzerland, among other parts. Pininfarina assembles the bodies in a factory near Turin, not far from the Italian Alps, then ships them to Detroit aboard 747 jumbo-jet freighters for outfitting with a high-performance GM engine and transmission...
...Aeromexico airliner's 64 occupants perished. So did William Kramer, 53, a retired executive of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., who was piloting the Piper; his wife Kathleen, 51; and daughter Caroline, 27. The tragedy was compounded by the devastation on the ground. The disintegrating jet slammed into the tidy houses below, igniting fires and spewing debris over several blocks. Sixteen houses were badly damaged, eight destroyed. The task of counting fatalities turned into a macabre chore as authorities tried to distinguish body parts of the air travelers from those of victims on the ground. The best estimate was that...
...screen, a short film showed an oversize golden sun hanging on the horizon while glistening waves caressed a deserted beach. Another depicted a beach chair dragging itself across the sand, dipping an aluminum toe in the water and timidly scampering away. Still another presented two Luxo desk lamps playing a friendly game of catch, stretching their springy arms and butting a rubber ball with their warm, cone-shaped heads...
...easily relegated to obsolescence, and lately its defenders have been striking back at the shiny aluminum-and-plastic CDs. "Metallic, gritty, grainy and unnatural," declares Harry Pearson, editor and publisher of the Absolute Sound, a journal devoted to the glories of old- fashioned analog recording. Claims for the superiority of CDs, say LP partisans, are hype. "Many of the people who were initially impressed by compact discs have been disappointed," asserts Gene Rubin, a Los Angeles-area audio retailer. "There is no way that LPs are going to vanish...
...five years ago, is an intellectual and artist whose somewhat rarefied career defies precise terminology. Frequently described as a "Renaissance man," he is a designer of museum displays and interiors and the author of nine books, including a computer handbook and a limited edition of poetry written on Plexiglas, aluminum and black cloth...