Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of display is abolished. The objects are inorganic and dateless: milky long-necked bottles and squat flasks, a biscuit tin, a fluted bowl, some long-beaked metal pitchers. They carry no marks, patterns or brand names. They look fragile and contingent, but they endure for decades, through picture after picture. (To make sure that nothing disturbed the precise relationships he put them in, Morandi drew chalk circles around the bases of his "models" on the surface of the table.) Sometimes the things have the look of architecture; the slender bottle necks, leaning together, vaguely recall the towers of Bologna...
Bonding is mainly used to rebuild chipped, broken or irregularly shaped teeth, to close gaps and to improve the look of teeth permanently discolored by smoking, foods or drugs. Capping can camouflage the same conditions, but bonding can also anchor metal bridges containing replacements for missing teeth or orthodontic braces that use plastic brackets in place of metal bands. Capping is generally avoided in the case of children because the tooth is not fully formed. Bonding has no such problem. Says Berman: "Children are always falling down and breaking their teeth. Bonding is an absolute godsend...
...most striking images--images that draw power not so much from their unexpectedness as from the fear and loathing they convey. The LSD-scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...
...Heavy Metal--Friday at 1:30, 4:50 and 8:10 p.m.; with American...
There are just 18 machining centers, operating under computer control, at the Yamazaki plant. Human workers are now needed only at the very beginning of the production process. They use cranes to load metal castings onto fixtures which are wheeled into a storage area by a yellow trolley. When the electronic factory is ready for the casting, the metal is automatically rolled from there over to the proper machining center, which selects the right tool from a large drum of some 40 accessories and begins to customize the casting according to computerized blueprints. If a drill bit should suddenly snap...