Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's no peripheral vision, there's no movement. What after all, you might ask yourself, are all of these people looking at? The boy in the plaid coat is looking at something on his face--his teeth it seems, (maybe he's appalled by his braces), the woman next to him is looking at something outside the frame. What could it be? Can you say this is a faithful reproduction of reality if you can't even tell what people are looking at? Not the woman who looks shocked by something outside the picture, the same picture in which...
...professor of medicine, says that plans for the new center are proceeding "smashingly," and he gives equally glowing accounts of the progress cancer treatment is making and of the bold new field of "medical oncology." Frei is a lanky man with wisps of reddish hair and a sweeping white coat that somehow properly identifies him as a modern crusader, the image one senses he enjoys...
...piece that means to do honor to the traditions of Raymond Chandler and the hard-boiled melodrama. But through its own dim eagerness it ends up making a mockery of them. How can anyone take such an enterprise seriously, after all, when the detective runs around in a trench coat six inches too short and 25 years...
...less powerful and the growing seasons short; frost hits large tracts in Siberia in early September. According to Soviet farm authorities, favorable weather conditions prevail about once every four years. This year there were two damaging developments. A freakishly warm winter failed to provide the essential protective coat of snow for the winter wheat, hurting the crop. Then, just as the spring plantings of corn and wheat were sprouting, a hot June parched the shoots, stunting the yield...
...Elton, money long ago became as abstract as grain futures. Paintings, jewelry and amusing baubles are what count, but most of his purchases become gifts. His U.S. agent has received a Rolls-Royce, his secretary a $2,300 raccoon coat. His manager got an $80,000 yacht and a $10,000 Faberge clock. Elton sent a Rembrandt etching of The Adoration of the Shepherds to Rod Stewart's 30th birthday party...