Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city has assigned a special 28-member police platoon to the complex, and a nearby police court will be reopened soon. Last week seven area liquor stores were ordered closed, and the first of 800 eviction notices sent out to Cabrini-Green residents designated as "troublemakers." Airport-style metal detectors, intended to stop the importation of guns, may be installed soon...
...times calm, collected, and carefully conceived. Nothing is by chance. No risks are taken, and there are no hard edges or unseemly passions. Instead, there is just a lucid, self-possessed expression so carefully wrought that it seems to be the tasteful product of some fastidious, bespectacled old Swiss metal smith: smooth, accurate, and refined to 24-carat purity. The graceful delicacy, not often found in fiction today, gives the prose an elegiac air of some other century...
...Kennecott marks the third time this month that companies flush with oil profits have sought to use that money to buy mineral and mining firms. Standard Oil of California bid $4 billion for the 80% it does not already own of Amax, which has vast reserves of molybdenum, a metal used to make special steel alloys, and nickel. Seagram Co., the whisky distiller, which sold $2.3 billion worth of Southwest oil and gas properties last month, has offered more than $2 billion for St. Joe Minerals, a producer of lead and zinc...
Another work at the Lehnbachaus was a metal table on wheels, placed over a tub of waxy material. A cabinet-like frame hung on the wall above. The guide booklet said the waxy stuff represented human fat; the rolling table, an embalming tray and the tools in the cabinet, embalming tools. The observer was supposed to reach and overcome the death taboo, called "The Morgue," the work aimed to fill the senses with revulsion and horror so that the viewer gradually lost his sensitivity to death...
Cohen, age 57, lives in Manhattan, where he is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and SUNY at Stony Brook. During the summer, he performs and teaches at the Marlboro Festival. The son of a scrap-metal dealer from Brooklyn, Cohen studied under Ivan Galamian at Julliard. Before joining the Beaux Arts Trio in 1968, Cohen spent more than ten years with the Julliard String Quartet. He has also appeared as a guest artist with the distinguished Budapest Quartet. In some ways, Cohen is the most jocular of the Beaux Arts, often relieving the tension of rehearsals...