Word: lacquering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forms the main quadrangle of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., 18 students and faculty members in flowered sarongs and silken blouses prepared for a Javanese gamelan concert. They tuned and positioned a wondrous, gleaming assemblage of brass gongs, chimes and metallophones with ivory-colored resonators, all mounted on red lacquer and gilt frames with extravagant carvings of dragons and other beasts. Students, some barefoot, bearded and in jeans, crowded around with fascinated families or strolled the vast green...
...some ultrasophisticated deity." Trying to read the riddle of his abstract, Shmoo-shaped objects is really a waste of time and effort, Price says. Their true secret, he feels, lies in their iridescent dragonfly-wing colors. These are achieved by spraying on 20 thin coats of high quality lacquer, which, he proudly points out, is the same method used on the West Coast for first-rate hotrod jobs...
Visitor from Hollywood is a case of seductio ad absurdum. It rests on the somewhat shaky premise that a Hollywood producer would set up an afternoon rendezvous with a suburban ma tron he once dated-17 years before-in order to kill an hour in bed. There is more lacquer than lecher in Scott's peacock-of-the-walk performance, but Stapleton is properly kittenish as she downs vodka stingers until she can only feel the bites on her neck...
...Francisco's Dow Wilson saw it, leaders of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers were more interested in lucre than lacquer. As secretary of San Francisco Local 4, the brotherhood's largest, Wilson waged a tireless battle against union officials' chicanery, citing as one instance a union-employer welfare fund in Sacramento that he claimed had been mishandled. Wilson was shot to death for his pains April 5. This month Lloyd Green, another crusading official of the same union, met the same fate. After the arrest (TIME, May 20) of five murder suspects-two of whom...
Many of these objects lay hidden in sealed chambers from the 3rd century until 1937 when French archaeologists excavated the crumbling city of Begram near the Hindu Kush, the mighty massif that barricades Afghanistan to the northeast. Roman glassware, Chinese lacquer work and Indian ivories were found together, revealing that the East and West were closer together in 300 B.C. than in the days of Marco Polo, 15 centuries later...