Word: parker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bonnie and Clyde. Bang bang! go the guns, and the bank guard falls dead, his face oozing ketchup from every pore. Twang twang! goes the banjo, and Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker ride off in a stolen flivver for further merriment, murder and mayhem...
...thought himself to be. Barrow fancied himself something of a latterday Robin Hood, robbing only banks that were foreclosing on poor farmers and eventually turning into a kind of folk hero. But Faye Dunaway's Sunday-social prettiness is at variance with any known information about Bonnie Parker. The other gang members struggle to little avail against a script that gives their characters no discernible shape...
...brainchild of Engineers Victor F. Zackay and Earl R. Parker, the new alloy is called TRIP (for transformation-induced plasticity) steel. In effect, it can be stretched like Silly Putty or molten glass 2½ to 4½ times as far as present-day high-strength steel without fracturing its molecular structure. More important, when TRIP steel eventually reaches the point of crack-inducing stress, a solid-state chemical reaction is triggered that blunts small cracks just as they begin, then fills them in to prevent major wounds. The chemical change precipitating this "self-healing" process takes place...
Indefatigable? Oddly enough, producing Zackay and Parker's super steel involves no other ingredients than those already used in steel alloys. "It is a new combination of alloys normally used in various kinds of stainless steel," says Zackay. Once the two professors hit upon the basic composition, "the only variation from the production of ordinary stainless was a deformation of the steel at temperatures from 500° to 1,100° Fahrenheit," said Parker...
...collection of truly scary short stories by Argentina's Julio Cortazar (Hopscotch), who lives and works in Paris. One of the stories, Blow-Up, provided the plot for Antonioni's hit movie. Another describes the sordid death of a musician who strongly resembles the late Charlie ("Bird") Parker. Perhaps the most affecting of all is the title story, which explores the daydreams and posturings of three lonely sisters in an Argentine suburb...