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...restoration are the Sacrifice of Isaac by Allori (Church of San Niccolò Oltrarno), Bronzino's Christ Descending into Limbo (Museum of Santa Croce), and Ghiberti's and Pisano's bronze doors from the Florence Baptistry-which restorers may have to coat with a transparent synthetic resin, now under research in Italy, to protect them from worse damage by air pollution...
...wine aficionados have an answer for such snobbery: flavored wines have been around for a long time. Spaniards favor sangria, made of red wine and fruit juices; French and Italian sweet vermouths are simply flavored wines; Greeks add resin to wine to produce retsina. Indeed, products like Thunderbird (a citrus-flavored wine that is 18% alcohol) have been on U.S. shelves for more than a decade. These cheap, more potent brands should continue to sell, mostly to the Skid Row set, despite the pop-wine invasion. What would a serious wino want, after all, with a low-alcohol tipple called...
...world's richest market, the U.S. underpins the prosperity of many out-of-the-way places, including the little Belgian villages of Froyennes and Callenelle. Their sole industry is making cast-resin billiard balls, the high-quality type used in tournament play, in the better pool halls and by the more discriminating owners of home tables. The painstaking job requires baking a resin mixture in molds in ovens of varying heat for periods of from seven days for a white cueball to 15 days for a striped ball (Nos. 9 to 15). The two firms of Usines de Callenelle...
...part of the post-World War II drive for freer trade, the U.S. tariff on cast-resin billiard balls was progressively reduced from 50% in 1947 to 20% in 1963. Now the Belgian billiard-ball hustlers fear that they may be snookered out of their prime market. Albany Billiard Ball Co. of Albany, N.Y., the only U.S. maker of cast-resin billiard balls, claims that it has been knocked into a side pocket by the imports. The company once dominated the U.S. market, but currently has only one-third of it. So Albany Billiard Ball is campaigning to kick...
...Angeles artists who rely on an even, machine-like finish, Moses' work is nuanced: hints of abstract expressionism are never far away. Byrn Verde is a sheet of canvas sewed and patched with delicate arabesques of thread and crosshatched with fine bleeding lines, then immersed in honey-colored resin and left to dry. The final image is almost Oriental in its airiness and apparent spontaneity...