Word: metallicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The first wave of CDs featured orchestral blockbusters to show off the digital sound's wide dynamic range. The true test of recording technology, however, is the piano. Wow, flutter and tape hiss--ills that LPs are heir to --are all magnified in piano music, but they are drastically reduced...
Then there is the Californian diplomatically known as Mr. X who ordered a Mercedes limousine in London for $30,000, a theoretical saving of $15,000. But Mr. X was not primarily interested in bargains. He ordered the limousine cut in half and stretched 4 ft., repainted in Porsche metallic...
Harvard announces that it would receive a $1.2 million federal government grant aimed to make the University one of the nation's leading developers of futuristic materials, such as solar cells and metallic glasses.
The luminous art nouveau bowls and vases and the early lamps chronicled by Alastair Duncan and Georges de Bartha in Glass by Galle (Abrams; 223 pages; $40) were often adorned with images of flowers, insects, birds, drawn from Galle's extensive nature studies, or abstractly patterned by pieces of...
While the U.S. shuttle coursed through its eight-day mission, the Soviets were marking a significant space anniversary. It was on Oct. 4, 1957, that Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, was launched, its thin, metallic beep announcing that the space age had begun. Since then, the...