Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...February, Lamar and his brothers Nelson Bunker and William Herbert Hunt (estimated combined fortune: $1.2 billion) have been defendants in a New York lawsuit in which Peru-owned Minpeco SA alleges that the Hunts' manipulation of the silver markets caused the 1980 crash in the price of that precious metal. The Hunts pleaded innocent, saying that silver's tumble cost them $1.1 billion...
City and school authorities reacted last week with stiff security measures: ID cards for students, metal detectors at building entrances and classrooms equipped with silent alarms. But controversy flared over one provision: students who attack teachers will be expelled. Although the schools' dropout rate is about 37%, state law guarantees even thugs an education until they...
...within the shapes of chessmen. Loving the double image, Corbero is part heir to Catalan surrealism. The son and grandson of metalsmiths, he sometimes gets a bit overrefined for American taste, but his delight in odd tropes -- like making forms in basalt that conventionally would be done in metal -- has its ! own authentic motives. He remains a very considerable sculptor...
...mendicant * saxophone player on the corner. Decked out, some in black leather jackets, others in pink high-tops and bobby-sox, a jaunty tweed cap here, a brightly colored scarf there, they jaywalk across 48th Street in twos and threes, dodging yellow taxis. Quick! Into an alley, up a metal staircase and through an entrance marked STAGE DOOR...
...Zululand to the Great White Way, the cast of Sarafina! has traveled 8,000 miles, a sudden trip into future shock. At first the idea had seemed preposterous: a musical about apartheid played by the victims. Twenty-two Africans, ages 14 and up, were recruited from the corrugated-metal and concrete shacks of KwaMashu, Umlazi and other sprawling, neglected settlements separated from the prosperity of white South Africa. Honed into a humming, exuberant whole by Playwright-Director Mbongeni Ngema, they have turned convention on its head with a triumphant spirit and rollicking rhythm that transcend politics. In its ninth month...