Word: glazes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case decided by the Louisiana jury last week, plaintiffs' attorney Dawn Barrios presented her case in layman's terms while Dow's lawyers showed up with treatises and textbooks. "You could see the jury's eyes glaze over," she says. Moreover, internal Dow memos explicitly referring to "cover-ups" and calling the marketing of the implants "inexcusable" and "right up there with the Pinto gas tank" did nothing to win sympathy for the company...
...night belongs to the evil stepsisters, played by Adriana Suarez and Jennifer Glaze. Glaze, as the taller and clumsier of the two, sends the audience into guffaws with her ditzy facial expressions and ridiculously bad dancing. As the shorter and meaner daughter, Suarez is the kind of villain you love to hate--she pushes, pulls and grabs toys and fans away from her sister just as Glaze starts to admire them. The loudest applause came when the sisters try on Cinderella's lost slipper: Glaze finally fought back, slapping Suarez and pretending to throttle her. These two dancers combine impressive...
...painting and ceramics of the Sung dynasty (960-1279). The show includes examples of Ju porcelain, the rarest and most esteemed type of Chinese ceramic: a lotus bowl and a dish with bodies as thin as fingernails, the absolute simplicity of their form etherialized by their pale turquoise glaze, a color so subtle that it seems to be emitting light rather than reflecting...
Wonderful things would continue to be produced for the Chinese imperial courts right down to the 19th century. In pottery, the innovation of blue glaze designs painted on a white ground belongs to the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1272-1368); but it reached its finest period under the later Ming Emperors in such objects as an early 15th century porcelain vase with a furious blue dragon galumphing around it, all its spikes and scales and fierce serpent rhythms contrasting with the suave, plump profile of the vase...
SKIERS KNOW THE SOUND. IT'S LIKE AN ice scraper cutting through the glaze on a windshield, only it gets louder and louder, and it is accompanied by the whoops and wails of the truly possessed. Upon hearing it, the smart skier moves off to the side of the trail. He or she knows that an avalanche of snowboarders is coming...