Word: freon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his ice-white wig and his freon-filled veins, Warhol and his deadpan cool spoke volumes about the new, acquisitive culture suddenly exploding in the '60s, buoyed by the youthful confidence of the Kennedys' Camelot. Yanked up in voltage and turned garishly hip, Warhol's iconic images of Jackie after J.F.K.'s murder, and his tabloid pictures of cars crashed and suicides, replaced dignity with glitz, marrying starstruck glamour to grisly death. Nothing since has seemed so electric and shallow, so perfect a mirror of what was happening to the state of America's spirit. The soulfulness of Pollock...
REFRIGERATOR With the introduction of small electric motors and nontoxic Freon in the 1930s, refrigerators migrated from industry to home, replacing iceboxes and gaspowered refrigerators. In 1927 GE established an electric-refrigeration department, and in 1931 Sears sold its first affordable refrigerator...
...Water is cooled down with a heat exchanger using freon as refrigerant," he says. "In the chiller, gas is compressed, and then as it expands, the cooling effect results...
...Company of Men Gamesmanship '90s-style: a nasty corporate jock sets up a woman--and his soft-willed colleague--for the betrayal of their middle-class lives. Neil LaBute's Freon-cool comedy, made for a preposterously low $25,000, outraged viewers who didn't get the dark joke or the narrative suavity. See it with someone you're sure loves...
...signed the Montreal Protocol, which restricted the use of ozone-depleting freon and CDCs. The Protocol is the model for this year's conference in Kyoto, he added...