Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handsome silver-haired businessman stretched out his 6-ft. 4-in., 170-lb. frame on the metal bunk in Cell 2 B4 of "the glass house," the downtown Los Angeles jail where male prostitutes, muggers and murderers are kept in holding pens. Arriving in the custody of FBI agents around 7:30 p.m., too late for Tuesday night's dinner, he disdained the tray of eggs, hash browns and sausage that was eventually offered. Throughout the night, he rarely slept; he just stared at the dank walls of the six-bed cell, which he occupied alone, and at the thick...
...there are many lights burning at the end of this tunnel Warner brings a searing intimacy to Joe Orton's dark British comedy. The room's metal pipes cinder-block walls, and shack-like closet house the cluttered furnishings of a living room, the play's only set Seated in three sections around the room, the audience watches the play on the same level as the performers. Constantly dashing about and moving the furniture, the cast members treat the spectators like intruders...
...chosen a different tack, emphasizing his belief that the United States must return to the gold standard in order to avert economic disaster. Katz was a financial analyst in New York in 1971 when then-President Richard M. Nixon nevered all conceptions between the value of currency and precious metal...
Given the history, what astonishes one is this tenderness. An odd, sweet quiet comes upon the field and grove in the September afternoon. The people, after their rally, rest almost dreamily on the threadbare grass. George Wallace has spoken. He sits in his wheelchair on the small flatbed metal stage in the park at Noccalula Falls near Gadsden. The people come to him. They fall into a long, orderly line to file past and take his hand and have him sign their Wallace posters...
...residents out. Either landlord are engaging in blatant arson-for profit or they're cutting maintenance to their buildings, which pressures tenants to abandon the apartments. After that, vandals may torch the building, or scavengers, called "junkies" in the arson business, strip the building for pipes or scrap metal and burn what's left to cover up the robbery. There are between 1200 and 1400 vacant buildings in Boston; once they are disposed of--as about 170 were this summer--the real estate market opens up for redevelopment...