Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bright morning sun sparkled off the plumed metal helmets of the Blues and Royals troopers of the Queen's Household Cavalry as they left their barracks for the daily mounting of the guard at Whitehall. Resplendent in blue tunics, white buckskin breeches and silver-colored breastplates, the tips of their unsheathed swords jauntily resting on their right shoulders, the colorful 16-man troop trotted along Hyde Park's South Carriage Drive while admiring tourists lolled in the grass and snapped pictures. The cavalrymen never reached their destination. At 10:43, just as the regiment's scarlet...
...Vazquezes plan to continue to do the quad, but Juan acknowledges that they may be able to do it only 40% of the time; success depends on an almost mystical factor that they refer to as "the feel of the rigging." The rigging is the 33-ft.-tall metal frame from which they work; sometimes it feels solid and sometimes it does not. Cold weather can ruin a performance. Says Juan: "Your body just doesn't want to move the way you want it to" Even the color of the ceiling can affect results. A black ceiling can cause...
...Labadi, chief press spokesman and a thoughtful, mysterious man, has not yet arrived. His office looks as if it had been deserted months ago, all the leaflets and propaganda material lying in dust on the shelves. Down the street, bombed so frequently, stores remain enclosed behind sheets of corrugated metal. Sandbags are piled on oil drums. An officer finally arrives to announce that there will be a press
Captain McCullers could not make it. His plane struck a power line, veered farther to the left. Spewing balls of fire into the air, it tore through four blocks of Kenner and exploded into bits of charred metal. Thirteen houses were leveled. The plane's nose smashed into one house, skidded through a vacant lot, caromed through two more blocks. The tail with its Pan Am insignia plowed to a stop in someone's yard; it was the only section of the plane still intact...
...that almost everything in the park would have to be clearly seen from the street. It also meant that play areas would have to be separate from the sitting and lounging areas. The shelters would be gazebos furnished with concrete tables and chairs. The benches would be made of metal. There would be bright lights at night. POD's design accomplishment is that none of this looks defensive or institutional. Indeed, it looks like a park most people would want...