Word: enameling
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...makeup costs about $10 for a lipstick or an eyeshadow, $6 for a bottle of nail enamel or a compact of blush, and $16 for a 4-oz. bottle of moisturizer...
...told, the scientists excavated the bones and teeth of 17 individuals. Given their age, no one was surprised that they showed a mix of chimpanzee-like and human traits that as a whole are more primitive than those of A. afarensis: smaller molars, larger canines and thinner tooth enamel, suggesting a diet rich in easy-to-chew fruits and vegetables. The new species, says paleontologist Tim White of the University of California at Berkeley, a co-leader of the expedition, "is way closer to an ape than to an australopithecine and is significantly different from any other hominid...
...late 13th century. In design and workmanship it is more than a masterpiece--it's one of the greatest monuments of medieval art, standing only a little more than nine inches high. Its base, stem and bulb are decorated with some 80 tiny and exquisitely made enamel-glass plaques, representing mythical beasts, evangelists, angels, prophets and apostles. The gold surface between them carries a rich linear ornamentation that never gets congested. The silver-gilt cup, borne up on the stem, is quite plain: it shifts visual gear from the "worldly" solidity of the base to an abstract purity that seems...
...instruments, several of which shone in solos in L'Allegro. A baroque flute, for example, enjoyed a lovely solo and interchange with Saffer in Part I, marred only by slight stumbling in the first few bars. The instrument, though held and played like a modern flute, is of black enamel, and considerably wider in diameter. Also fascinating were the horns, ancestors to the modern French horn, which had no stops and could only be played in the primary overtone series, manipulated by the musician through aperture control alone. The trumpets, which had no stops but recorder-like openings for pitch...
...favorite artists, had done a similar scene of fireworks at night behind a tall wooden bridge. The real Battersea Bridge was too stumpy for Whistler, so he made it into a tall Orientalized dream, with the falling rocket fire spangling the dusk like gold flakes on Japanese maki-e enamel. If he could choose where he was born, he could certainly decide what country of the mind a mere bridge...