Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groceries and an angry trucker with a load of wet cement. In South Carolina's Hampton County, everything depends on an antique system in which a child under ten or a blind person sits in court and pulls the names of potential jurors from a metal box. Says Marjorie Avant, a courthouse employee: "No one ever suggested doing it any other...
...lives seriously. The air around them is "full of microwaves and jets." An apartment-house elevator contains a TV set; during a short ride up, the operator switches dials and treats his passengers to snippets of six old movies. Strange rituals proliferate; at airports, Mooney's people watch "metal detectors detect belt buckles and sets of keys on the persons of those who wished to fly somewhere." Things, Melissa decides, "were getting fast...
...Santa Ana, Calif., and is used in 20 European and American luxury hotels from the Helmsley Palace in New York City to the Hilton International in Dusseldorf, West Germany. Instead of being given a normal key that can be easily copied, guests receive a thin paper card containing a metal foil strip with a precise pattern of holes punched in it by a computer. When someone inserts the card into a small box on his room door, a battery-powered electric motor opens the latch. When a customer checks out of the hotel or reports his card missing, the computer...
...last week, a military convoy stretching a full mile snaked its way 3½ miles from Rocky Mountain Arsenal to a runway at Stapleton International airport in Denver. The four U.S. Army trucks eased up beside a pair of C-141 Starlifter transport planes. Aboard the trucks, stacked on metal pallets and tightly harnessed with black nylon webbing, was the deadly cargo. "We've taken every conceivable safety precaution," Brigadier General Walter Kastenmayer told reporters. "I have no concern that we can't do this safely...
Prices for the new accessories vary so greatly that almost anyone can satisfy that metal urge. In New York City, street vendors hawk bronze leather shoulder bags for $23. A similar item at New York's Henri Bendel runs $165. Metallic belts can range from $2 for a gold cinch to $200 for a Judith Leiber number with handcrafted metal buckles from Bullock's Wilshire in Los Angeles. Miami's tony Twenty-Four Collection is devoting its entire holiday catalogue to metallics, from $124 gold-sprayed straw hats to $1,800 gold-striped snakeskin jackets...