Word: molds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...considerable technical know-how -- and time. Angel's team tackles the job in their hangar-like mirror lab located, improbably enough, under the stands of the University of Arizona football stadium. In the center of the lab is a huge round furnace. To make a mirror, a complex ceramic mold is assembled inside the furnace and filled with glittering chunks of Pyrex-type glass. Once the furnace lid is sealed, the temperature will slowly ratchet up over a period of several days, at times rising no more than 2 degrees C in an hour. At 750 degrees C (1382 degrees...
...spirit of Walt hovers over Euro Disney too. Mice with sewing needles and birds holding ribbons in their beaks adorn the capitals in l'Auberge de Cendrillon, the park's only French restaurant (try the dessert they call Cinderella's Slipper: chocolate mousse in a white-chocolate shoe mold). Dumbo snouts serve as the spouts for fresh water in man-made Lake Buena Vista. At the Hotel Cheyenne's Chuckwagon Cafe, which has antlers in all of its decorating, plastic horseshoes hold the condiments, and nailed to the wall is a dinner bell shaped in a silhouette of Texas...
...stone foundations sit in water year round. The moisture percolates up into the sandstone and allows mold and moss to destroy the intricate carvings and eventually the integrity of the structures. The antidote used so far has been to scrub the facades. Since 1986 the Archaeological Survey of India has spent the six-month dry season sprucing up Angkor Wat. A team of 15 Indian specialists supervises more than 300 unskilled Cambodian workers, who scrape the fragile sandstone carvings with brushes and chemicals...
While the bright facade of Angkor Wat is a welcome change from the grim, mold-covered exteriors of the other temples, the procedure is controversial. Says a foreign archaeologist at Angkor: "Initially, the Indians were very careless. Much of the detail in the carving has been lost." But on balance, there is less criticism of the Indian efforts now than a few years ago. Says Pich Keo, director of the National Museum in Phnom Penh: "At least they came here and worked when no one else would come...
...Wardrobe. The man, as mentioned above, is shirtless, or else in the process of becoming shirtless, thanks to the woman's eager hands. Tight pants complete his costume. Often, he wears a revolver on his belt as a symbol of power. Bertice Small's novel, The Spitfire, breaks the mold in that it portrays a man wearing a skirt. Well, okay, a kilt...