Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late 1970s, the billionaire Hunts of Texas used all their wiles and much of their wealth in what appeared to be a daring and nearly successful attempt to corner the silver market. The family accumulated some 200 million oz. of the precious metal in a series of purchases that helped drive silver prices from $11 per oz. in 1979 to $50 per oz. in January 1980, when the market finally crashed...
Until a couple of years ago the Pastures also offered some singular special effects. Sometimes there was a strange gelatinous gunk--"green slime" or "moon glob"--that could be picked up and hurled in lieu of snowballs. There were also acres of empty metal drums, industrial barrels just sitting around; it was hard for any self-respecting young thrill seeker to resist climbing inside and tumbling downhill. Parents seldom ventured into the area. So the town fathers and mothers did not know enough to fear that the moon glob and the barrels might have come from the Baird & McGuire factory...
...people outside a core of heavy-metal diehards will know that Gore gets the lyrics a little askew. Not many others may even have heard of W.A.S.P. Tipper Gore, wife of Senator Albert Gore Jr., and some other well-connected women in Washington are changing all that. They have banded together as Parents Music Resource Center (P.M.R.C.) and, with the National Parent-Teacher Association, want everyone to know that rock-'n'-roll music has gone too far. "The music industry is cashing in on shock value, and parents have said, 'That's it--no further,' " says Ann Kahn, president...
...Heavy-metal music is a particularly easy target for critics because its audience is relatively small: a crowd of tuned-out, working-class white adolescent males who drink too much beer and whoop it up for the thunderous guitar licks and outrageous stage antics. The major social impact of a heavy- metal concert is belching. Nevertheless, pressure groups have seized on the music's theatrical excessiveness, literalized it, then tried to get all of rock to take...
Harvard Square businessmen closed up shop early yesterday, taping windows and reinforcing storefronts. The worst damage occurred at the Coop, where the thirty-foot metal "Harvard Cooperative Society" sign crashed to the street at 1:30 p.m. No one was hurt...