Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three pairs that are mink-lined, another with 57 tiny light bulbs that spell out ELTON, yet another shaped like musical notes linked by a jeweled bridge bar. Most gorgeous of all is a set of cloud-shaped lenses suspended by gold hooks from a gold and platinum frame encrusted with 103 diamonds...
Even before the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries began jacking up oil prices in 1973, prices for other raw materials were breaking records. Spurred by shortages and rampant speculation in commodities markets, prices for such staples as copper, rubber, cocoa, coffee, platinum and cotton rose sharply; some had doubled or tripled by mid-1974. But after the oil crisis helped push the West into recession, commodities prices tumbled, in some cases to a third of what they had been at the peak. Copper, for example, rose nearly 300% in 17 months, peaking at $1.40 per Ib. a year ago; this...
...climax with the first couple of verses and instantly, everyone stood up on his or her seats. The spots fell down upon the main mike next to which stood an emaciated Lou Reed, clad in a sleeveless black T-shirt and worn-out jeans. In addition, his almost platinum-bleached hair and coal-black sunglasses lent him an ominous air, the total embodiment of all Reed has ever represented...
...issued one last broadside: a 350-page staff report alleging, among other things, that leftover campaign funds had been used by President Nixon's good friend C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo to pay for various major improvements to the Nixon properties at Key Biscayne and for a pair of platinum-set diamond earrings that the President gave to Pat in 1972 for her 60th birthday...
...Odessa File) grows richer and more book clubbable. He also finds it harder and harder to get his action to explode without leading up to it with an interminable train of exposition-in this case short lectures on every conceivable subject from the state of the world's platinum market to exactly how a consignment of German Schmeissers for an African coup d'état should be welded into oil drums-the better to foil the customs with, my dear. Forsyth's fact-filled thriller about a bad moneyman in London and how he uses a white...