Word: flaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state, 13 of them major. Flames shot 70 ft. in the air and made 50-ft. leaps across canyons and roads. Palm trees exploded; $1 million homes seemed to combust spontaneously. At the beach, black smoke hung over the surf, and in downtown Los Angeles a steady "snow" of flake-size ash fell. Elsewhere the embers glowed red and started new blazes. In many areas, day became night as soot obscured the sun, while a permanent "sunset," the orange glow of not-so-distant flames, eerily lit the horizon...
...American public is caught between a flake and politics as usual. This is hardly an unprecedented situation in American politics. There have been plenty of flakes--some of them presidents--and there has been lots of politics as usual. Unfortunately, the stakes are higher now. The ship of state is headed for the Chapter 11 shoals in a hurry...
...bluntly, Ross Perot is a wishy-washy flake who should receive a Texas-sized whoopin' for an incredibly irresponsible approach to his candidacy. I must admit that, as a fellow Dallasite who despises slimy political rhetoric, Perot's potential candidacy once excited...
...irony of 1992 is the effort to paint Perot as a flake--a man whose on-again/off-again routine makes him unfit for office. But, after months of bad-mouthing Perot, Bush and Clinton rushed to court his supporters the instant he bowed...
...rules, and the most binding of these was the integrity of the glaze: all color on a ceramic object had to come either from the clay itself or from the glazes that, through firing, were bonded to it. But this was California, the territory of outlaw artificial color, metal flake, Duco gloss, candy stripes, epoxy bases. Price didn't go for the mass and roughness of Voulkos' work; he wanted a more concise style of object, perverse in its craftsmanship and highly mannered...