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...becomes white when cooked. It usually refers to cod or haddock, but on good fishing days can denote halibut and other flakier varieties. Lemon juice that has been dried (dehydrated), and then moistened again is said to have been reconstituted. Dental floss is usually made of fine strings of nylon. If waxed, the strings tend to fray less often during use. Unwaxed pieces, however, are thinner and can fit better in small cracks. And rack and pinyon steering is the term for a geared steering mechanism first found in European cars. The system has fewer linkages than ordinary steering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...DOLPHINS INTO A CIRCLE, WHILE THE 250-FT. MOTHER SHIP SLOWLY surrounds the spray-filled confusion of boats and dolphins with a mile-long, 450-ft.-deep nylon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A DEADLY ROUNDUP AT SEA | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...equally impossible to find an Italian leather blouson that is not derived in some way from the rumble-ready splendor of an American black leather motorcycle jacket. Paris' Claude Montana appears almost invariably in some combination of the same basic outfit: jeans, T shirt, a hooded sweatshirt and a nylon military jacket lined in phosphorescent orange. Montana may make some of the hottest duds on the runways, but he looks strictly made in the U.S.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born and Worn in the U.S.A. | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...view in the new show, or on sale in East Village boutiques from Black Market and Batislavia to Tribe and 109 St. Mark's, are such items as an Eva Goodman nylon raincoat, colored like a beachball, done up with sailing-line pullies and decorated with squirmy rubber fishing lures; a black rubber dress with a zip from back to hem by Mariann Marlowe; and an all-vinyl snakeskin suit by Animal-X. Some of the clothes go for immediate impact over staying power. But there are a fair number of designers, like Morton and Goodman, who are imaginative enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: East Village Stars and Stripes | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...astronauts died of asphyxiation in the raging inferno, which began, NASA eventually concluded, with a short circuit in the Apollo's 20 miles of wiring. Flames spread along a nylon net under the astronauts' couches. Had the fire occurred in a natural atmosphere, the three might have had time to escape. But the blaze flashed through the pure oxygen in seconds. Even then the astronauts might have had a chance if they could have blown out Apollo's hatch by touching off explosive bolts. But Grissom was firmly opposed to the use of such bolts. Splashing down in the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was Not the First Time | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

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