Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tractors clank down the 200-yd.-long assembly line like gigantic metal insects: 7,500 tractors a month, 90,000 a year, all bearing the trademark Belarus MTZ. Brigades of young laborers clad in work clothes or jeans swarm over each monster, slipping front axles and gear boxes into place, bolting on metal casings, attaching three or four giant wheels...
...Steel Bird, which was published last year in the U.S., marks Aksyonov's break with realism in favor of the grotesque. This novella features a ghastly humanoid with a metal carapace who blackmails the superintendent of an apartment house into letting him live in the elevator. Acting with Stalinist guile, the steel bird takes over the entire building and its tenants. The structure soon collapses; the creature is left to roost triumphantly atop the elevator shaft, surveying the debris...
...remains virtually unchanged since Nielsen introduced it in 1950: the TV tastes of the nation are distilled from a scientifically selected and highly secret sample of 1,170 "Nielsen families" across the country, who are paid $50 a year to have their viewing preferences electronically monitored by a little metal box attached to their sets...
...drive is something of a legend by now: few artists anywhere near her age keep working at such a pitch. Fittingly her formidable sense of vocation is currently celebrated in not just one but three Manhattan shows. At the Pace Gallery is a collection of models for metal outdoor sculpture Nevelson has done in just the past decade At the Wildenstein Gallery is a rich assemblage of wood constructions and collages. But in many ways the centerpiece of the Nevelson celebration is an exhibition called "Atmospheres and Environments" at the Whitney Museum...
...with six years of service who re-enlist for three years: an Army infantryman $2,000 and an atomic demolitions munitions specialist $8,000; a Navy boiler technician $10,000 and a nuclear propulsion specialist $12,000; a Marine microwave-equipment repairman $6,000; an Air Force aircraft sheet metal worker $2,000 and an air traffic controller...