Word: clay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gale was one of the first talents to be liberated by Chrysler's industrial revolution and the creation of independent platform teams. When he drew the assignment to create a new midsize car, he and chief engineer Francois Castaing physically began tearing down and breaking apart clay models, pulling out the wheels until they stood at the edge of the metal, stretching them to the very extremes front and back, pushing the windshield over the hood until it began to look like the front of a locomotive. The changes opened up the height, width and interior space in ways that...
...first kiss: It was a boy named Robin who I tried to pin to the clay table and kiss. He bore an uncanny resemblance to Popeye...
...moose-breeding ground high on the mountain, and build a 77-acre lake to hold toxic mine residues called tailings. This mass, weighing about 5.5 million tons, would be held back by a 90-ft.-long earth-fill dam (earthquake-proof, say the company's engineers), and lined with clay and long-lasting plastic. At the end of the mine's 15-to-20-year life, the water level would be lowered and the crushed sulfate tailings would be capped with rock and dirt. The remaining water would be stagnant, not flowing. Thus the supply of oxygen would...
Kinison was not Lenny Bruce -- more studied, less sharp and attacking society from the redneck right instead of the hip-humanist left. But he was no lame-brain Andrew Dice Clay either. What's the difference? Well, stand back, because we have to scream this in a print approximation of the sonic blast that was Kinison's trademark. SOMETIMES HE'S FUNNY! We're not happy about this, but there it is. Alive or dead, in a comedy club or in hell (granted, a fine distinction), Kinison lived up to his self-appointed epithet, Leader of the Banned...
...site was originally used as a clay mine until 1952, which left a deep clay...