Word: chromed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Metropolitan Los Angeles has been characterized as the world's largest parking lot, with 4.7 million vehicles making 25 million trips daily among 84 cities. Officials of the region took a promising step last week, however, toward giving all that chrome some competition. Mayor Tom Bradley officiated at a groundbreaking for a 21-mile, $595 million light-rail project to link Long Beach and Los Angeles, currently the country's largest megalopolis without rail transit...
...years, that all-important element of my morning routine, the toasted slice bread, has met with more abuse that Caspar Weinberger at a Harvard Forum. Innocent slices of ordinary commercial bread are slowly baking drier than the University plans to make this campus. And all by a gleaming chrome technological fiasco with an industrial-size plug that looks like it was salvaged from one of the early electric chairs...
DIED. Vic Tanny, 73, body builder who founded a nationwide chain of 100 or more gymnasiums and fitness centers that started in the mid-1930s and were the first to shed the grubby, back-street gym image in favor of carpets, chrome, cleanliness, swimming pools and a "pay as you perspire" plan that attracted working- class men and women; of a heart attack; in Tampa...
...Mexico. Above the horseshoe-shaped counter on panels where a menu is usually displayed, an overhead slide show is in progress. The pictures change slowly, allowing the viewer to take in all the details. A low shot of a Peterbilt, its chrome fittings sparkling in the sunshine, is followed by one of a bosomy young woman, the same who must pose for those calendars found in auto-parts stores. She almost has on clothes, and she is offering to check a trucker's oil. The next slide is a side view of a whole tractor-trailer rig, its 18 wheels...
...waitress looks too tired and too jaded to be offended. The jaws of the truckers move mechanically as they fork up their eggs-over-easy. They stare at the slides, glassy eyed, as intent on chrome as on flesh...