Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the sport's enthusiasts, skateboards first appeared along the California beaches in the early 1960s among surfers. Not until the mid 1970s--when the clay and metal wheels then used were replaced by faster and softer wheels made of polyurethane--did skateboarding become a widespread...
...grows louder with the rush hour, people passing over Sunset Park on their way home to other places. Tony and Ingrid live just east of Third, across from a car wash whose walls are covered with curlicues of graffiti. At this hour, Tony is on the job at the metal plant, and Ingrid has the two girls home from school...
...doorbell rings, and Mallory admits two tall black men delivering a huge brown, metal free-standing closet. They struggle to angle the closet through the darkened hallway to place it in Michael's and Eileen's room. Mallory's plan is to rip out built-in drawers in the hallway, and thus widen it into a dining room. The immediate effect of the alteration is to make Michael's room impossible to enter. Mallory touches his head again. "Smart, right...
...place, like Stalin's Russia or the British welfare state, where everything is planned but nothing quite works. A Rube Goldberg spy machine kibitzes with a roving bloodshot electronic eye, then wheels away in a deranged gait. Giggling plastic surgeons do their "snip snip slice slice" with metal clamps and Saran Wrap. Sam and a man in the next office share a desk that each keeps yanking through his own side of the dividing wall. Every romantic impulse is stifled by the system's suffocating incompetence. In one poignant scene, Sam descends in an open elevator and ecstatically spots Jill...
...strategic places on the rim of California's San Joaquin Valley, men kneel in gravelike pits. Camouflaged with grass, they await their prey. A stillborn calf lies as bait within inches of each of the earthen blinds. Nearby, other men squat beside a row of four metal cannons, ready to fire weights attached to a 40-ft. by 50-ft. net. Frustrated, they all scan the sky, hoping that the wintry clouds collecting on the horizon do not close in. The 20-lb. Gymnogyps californianus rarely seeks food on stormy days...