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Word: liquidation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this Sausalito company have included Locker Room, which took place in a high school locker room, with the audience seated atop the lockers, and Surface Tension, a water work that toured swimming pools up and down the West Coast. For the festival, Farabough has created another aqueous drama, Liquid Distance/ Timed Approach, which she has staged, so to speak, in the swimming pool of the Beverly Hills High School. Unfortunately, the chlorinated blue water is clearer than her plot, which covers everything from the sinking of the Titanic to high school pool parties. Although the ten cast members are skillful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bold, Visual, Spectacular | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...Illinois-based disposal Goliath. Over the past decade, Vulcanus I has conducted test burns in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Vulcanus II was set to begin commercial operations in the gulf, where the ship's giant furnaces were to reduce thousands of tons of liquid poisons to harmless vapor. To broaden the burn program, the Maritime Administration backed a $55.8 million loan that enabled At-Sea Incineration Inc. to build two disposal vessels in Tacoma, Wash. Advocates call Apollo I and Apollo II "state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Destroying Toxic Wastes at Sea | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...armed with order forms, style books, color charts, the buyers, with occasional encouragement and sweet talk from the designers, start to act just like serious shoppers. They pull clothes off racks, hold them up, try them on. Armani's definitive long coats and shorter sexy skirts; his loose, liquid, wool jumpsuits; his jackets with turned-down lapels; his heart-stopping evening wear... heaven on a hanger! Claude Montana's huge coats in electroshock colors; Yohji Yamamoto's sweaters in colors like a deep-sea bottom! Saint Laurent's peerless pants! It is easy enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Fall Fashions: Buying the Line | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...pipeline that ran next to Vila SocÓ. Investigators contend that Petrobrás failed to monitor a pressure buildup on the line and stop the leak. At the time of the explosion, shortly after midnight, gasoline had spread throughout many ditches of the shantytown, creating a liquid bomb that awaited only ignition. Petrobrás admitted human error in the accident and has agreed to pay hospital costs and damages for the survivors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tragedy Deepens | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

This week at the photo industry's annual trade show in Las Vegas, Canon will promote its two most automatic cameras ever. The T70, priced at $450, features three computer programs that adjust the camera for particular situations ranging from fast movement to long vistas. A liquid-crystal display on top of the T70 can tell the photographer 152 different pieces of information about the camera, including the shutter speed being used and the amount of film left. The shirt pocket-size MC, $280, focuses itself, automatically advances the film and rewinds it at the end of a roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picture Perfect | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

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