Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...linked to their work (among them, Maurice Denis, Louis Anquetin, Emile Bernard, Paul Serusier and Toulouse-Lautrec) was a style known as cloisonism. The French cloison means "division" or "partition," and it was applied to a kind of enamelware whose patches of bright color were separated by fine metal lines. Largely because of the intensity of Van Gogh's genius, cloisonism became one of the key modernist styles, the sign of a new concern with the semantics of art (which were being explored in a totally different way by Cezanne in Aix and by Seurat with his light-filled...
Demand for dollars has also been strong because some holders of gold are selling the metal out of fear that it now faces a long slide. The U.S. Treasury estimates that 14,000 to 16,000 tons of gold, worth about $240 billion at current prices, are in private hands worldwide. If the goldbugs dump only a small portion of their holdings and buy dollars, that transaction can have a very large impact on both the price of gold and the value of the American currency...
...then continued falling another $19.80 to close the week at $501.70, its lowest level in nine months. One factor in gold's slide was the remarks made by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and President Reagan two weeks ago concerning a possible sharp drop in prices for the metal...
...lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "We have here a terrible crisis of confidence. There are some people who are worried about the future of democracy." Said Knesset Member Uri Avneri, a longtime critic of the Israeli political Establishment: "The government is breaking apart. It's like metal fatigue...
Under a wintry Italian sky, a gray-suited and solemn Lech Walesa, his wife Miroslawa and a 13-member delegation from Solidarity strode across the Vatican's stone-paved Court of San Damaso to the Apostolic Palace. For the occasion, the Swiss Guards had donned their red-plumed metal helmets, an honor usually reserved for visiting heads of state. The helmets attested to the special significance that the Vatican attached to last week's meeting between the leader of Solidarity and his Pope and countryman, John Paul II, formerly Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Cracow...