Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powered by a pair of new J58 jet engines, developed by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. over the past eight years. But its real secret lies in the metal of which it is largely made: titanium, which can withstand the searing heat that is generated in flight at many times the speed of sound. Titanium had long resisted the best efforts of engineers to fabricate it as the major metal in any aircraft...
Most bugging is done with simple apparatus, since the tiny transmitters usually have to be abandoned on the job. The smallest bug in common use is about one inch square, and it must be clipped to a metal object or trail a few feet of wire to serve as an antenna. Its range may be a few hundred feet. In such areas as residential Beverly Hills, where rooms are hard to rent and cars cannot be parked on the streets at night, the electronic sleuth buries a brick-size repeater in the victim's yard, threading its antenna wire...
Foremost among the animal sculptors was Antoine-Louis Barye, a man who never traveled farther from Paris than the tranquil cow country of nearby Barbizon. A student of the early romantic painter, Baron Gros, he was an apprentice metal chaser at 14, and later a goldsmith. He went to museums and libraries to study stuffed animals and see pictures of them in their natural habitats, visited zoos to watch them in motion, measured their anatomies after they had died. So vividly did Barye give life to his tiny bronzes that his contemporary, the painter Delacroix, once said...
Shipyard Studio. Among grownups, as well, Calder at 65 is Europe's favorite U.S. sculptor. In 1927 he delighted Paris with his tiny abstract circus of wire-wound clowns. The son and grandson of more conventional sculptors, Calder has the blacksmith's instinctual understanding and fondness for metal. His ham fists twist, snip and shear sheet metal into subtle forms that others can only hope to achieve in clay or marble. His latest works of iron are so heavy that his Paris gallery had to reinforce its floor with girders for a one-man Calder show last month...
...well, turns out tiny bronzes that prance, preen and posture with all the assurance of statuary weighing tons. By combining her small bronzes with her oils, she hopes to make a synthesis between the daydream illusion of oils and the rocky reality of sculpture. Like her oils, her metal figurines capture strikingly the singular event, the particular human being. "These for me," says Joyce Treiman, "are a summing up and a viva...