Word: freon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Antoni handling the keyboards and samples, and Yuval Gabay on drums. Their music is a blend of very danceable bass and keyboard sounds and samples with surreal, beat-like vocals by Doughty. On the tune, "Sugar Free Jazz," for instance, "They normalize the signals and you're banging on freon,/Paleolithic eons, put the fake goatee on/and it booms as cool as, sugarfree jazz...
...current research is to produce superconductors that can perform their magic at less frigid temperatures that are easier to reach and maintain. What's exciting about the latest mercury compounds, Chu points out, is that they can theoretically do their thing with the help of ordinary coolants like Freon, which circulates in household refrigerators...
...glass back with his bare hands, unlock the door and slither inside. Next, he used the screwdriver to break the steering column and turn on the ignition. Popular antitheft devices like The Club, which locks a steering wheel in place, never deterred him. Most thieves spray The Club with Freon and crack it with a hammer. Wills would snip it in half with a ratchet-type tool. "He said he preferred GM cars," says agent Stott. "I think he was probably just more familiar with them...
...Freon; Bad Lieutenant is sulfur. Ferrara's fifth film, about a New York City police officer (Keitel again) caught in a toxic vortex of drugs, sex and gambling, has been rated NC-17. Two scenes are indelibly repellent. In one, a nun is raped in a church; in the other, the cop viciously and pathetically humiliates two teenagers with verbal sexual abuse. The movie, a lapsed Catholic's anguished prayer for last-minute salvation, says the cop is so addicted to sin he can't enjoy it. "Vampires are lucky," observes the cop's junkie girlfriend (co-screenwriter Zoe Lund...
...experience was not a total loss. During the early '80s, Keller was able to advance the cleaning efficiency, and Smith made the switch from Freon to pentane. The Department of Energy began taking an interest. Through its Clean Coal program, DOE was awarding matching funds to private-sector coal- powered projects that demonstrated an ability to both meet new environmental standards and compete economically...