Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principle behind the maglev is simple: opposite magnetic poles attract each other; like poles repel. In Japan's version, eight superconducting electromagnets are built into the sides of each train car, and thousands of metal coils are set into the floor of the guideway. When the train is in motion, the electromagnets on the train induce electric currents in the guideway coils, which then themselves become electromagnets. As power is increased, the opposing sets of magnets repel each other and lift the train into the air. Two other rows of electromagnets, one on each wall of the U- shaped guideway...
Elvis and the Beatles passed him by, and so did hard rock, soft rock, punk, heavy metal and all their noisy alloys. That makes Michael Feinstein, 30, either the oldest young singer of the '80s or the youngest old singer. Or perhaps both. What does he like? Just sit back and listen to the first number on his enchanting album, Live at the Algonquin (Parnassus Records): "Wanna sing a show tune,/ Good old Broadway show tune,/ Nothing that has no tune,/ Something that has heart./ Something you can hum, or can strum by the hour...
...Black men maneuvered metal grocery carts through the crowd, scavenging for returnable beer cans. French Quarter etiquette encourages you to leave your can in the gutter for these people to find--it's the only neighborhood I know that practices philanthropic littering. Outside the Royal Sonesta Hotel we saw three obliterated I.U. students trying to help a scavenger by bellowing up at the people carousing on the hotel balconies to throw down their empties. An answering rain of hard metal cans showered to the pavement, along with an inflatable sex doll on a string. Those who were sober enough...
...Blake Babies, the decibel sound of Bullet hit you like a well-aimed right from Mike Tyson. Bullet LaVolta's strength comes from duelling guitars of Adams House junior Clay Tarver and Adams House Classics Tutor Corey Brennan: Tarver favors straight-forward riffs while Brennan produces lightning-quick metal solos. The result is a combination of licks reminiscent of the best MC5 or Cream and the manual dexterity of modern metal...
...this first impression of high-minded melancholy is not the whole mood that Sternfeld means to convey. He develops his feelings more fully in Page, Arizona, August 1983, his admiring picture of a woman presiding on the high ground overlooking the mobile-home encampment where she lives. The metal cartons behind her may not look like much, but her own satisfaction is not to be denied. She has a mythic weight, as well as a bit of the literal kind, and her sly smile makes a strong case in favor of whatever it is that accounts for her contentment. When...