Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cooper's specialty is constructing completely original molecules, each with a host of new properties. In particular he deals with bonding carbon atoms onto metal atoms, a process which until recently was considered a scientific impossibility...
...realm of today's performing arts, energy is an overvalued coin. Its name is invoked to trumpet every gonadal excess from heavy metal to slasher movies...
...Automobile and Culture" is more concerned with the social impact of the automobile than its beautiful past or enormous possibilities. The show does not shy away from depredation. Indeed, a viewer who concentrates only on the contemporary seems besieged by editorials in oil, metal emulsion paper...
...Annan's Parking '30s Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius designed various solid-looking bodies for Adler luxury convertibles. American artists instead used standard models as a kind of canvas or armature. Examples: the aggressive Pegasus by James Croak, featuring a stuffed horse with paper wings crashing through the metal roof of another '63 Chevrolet; The Bicentennial Welfare Cadillac by James Roche, decked out with mirrors and flags; and Ghetto Blaster by Scott Prescott, an Impala converted into a menacing gray tank. French Sculptor Arman has a towering indictment: his Long Term Parking piles 60 cars...
...fitted the Depression era by stressing bargains, though it betrayed a few aspirations for better times. "Merry Christmas to mother-an electrical appliance that saves labor" was a $2.39 automatic iron. Daughters could help out with a 22-piece deluxe toy laundry set with scrubboard and heavy metal washtub for $1.98. Somewhat more in the Christmas spirit were 2-Ib. fruitcakes for 49?, Tinkertoys at 69?, canaries for $2.95 and a Kodak camera...