Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles some years ago, he took out a large ad in the Los Angeles Times: PAUL NEWMAN APOLOGIZES EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEK. He got hold of a print and showed it to friends in the screening room of his Westport home not long ago, supplying everyone with a metal pot and a large wooden spoon to beat on it with. "It was fun for about the first reel," he said, "and then the awfulness of the thing took over...
...THEIR ART, the English have always had a knack for electroplating the basest metal with silvery gentility and presenting it like the finest tea service. This wonderful alloy of nastiness and reserve is the stuff of such typical British products as Alec Guinness classic Kind Hearts and Coronets, Agatha Christie's drawing room whodunits. Monty Python, and Evelyn Waugh, Brimstone and Treadestems from this tradition of black comedy, but departs from it by crossing over the boundary between laughter and darkness once too often. The result, while disturbing and thought-provoking, is ultimately unsatisfactory...
...Madison Avenue lawyer named Murray Schwartz. Sliwa has written a book called Streetsmart: The Guardian Angel Guide to Safe Living The paperback has an eye-catching glossy cover photo of Sliwa and some Angels standing on a street in tough-guy poses usually found on the covers of heavy-metal rock albums or comic books. It underscores the way Sliwa has marketed himself and his ideas in a tasteless, often crass manner...
...police soon sealed off all of downtown Moscow. The tight security allowed mourners to move three abreast through unimpeded streets. The capital's huge avenues were guarded by long ranks of militiamen in their metal-color greatcoats with blue shoulder boards. Soldiers wearing black-edged red armbands stood at attention outside the House of Trade Unions, whose light-green-and-white facade had been freshly painted for the occasion. Red flags and streamers bordered in black hung limply on the building...
...major contribution companies can make is providing role models for minority students. Chicago's Blitz Corp., a metal-working shop whose main business is recycling buses, sends employees, most of them blacks, to nearby Marshall High School to give shop-class students real nuts-and-bolts .experience in riveting, drilling and welding. The program has sparked interest in a school where the 200-student freshman class typically dwindles to 25 graduating seniors. Last June, Blitz hired four Marshall alumni, the first it had ever taken on. Says Plant Manager George Little: "These kids realize it is possible to succeed...