Word: shellacing
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...dream of mountains. Mountain air is like none other, dry and thin, it crackles with energy. Like pure water, this cool air is hypotonic. With each breath, impurities and particulates, the shellac of concerns and obligations, leech out of my lungs and are expelled into the cool wind. I dream of freedom...
...Remember, shellac is for porches, not for hairstyles. If the paper is reporting on your coif but not your competency, it's not good news for your campaign...
...Harvard beat Princeton, 23-22, in 1998 thanks to a halfback pass by Chris Menick. I saw Harvard shellac Penn, 33-0, to clinch the Ivy title in 1997. I saw Harvard score 52 points against Holy Cross. I saw the same Mike Giampaolo miss a 19-yarder and Rich Linden fumble on his own 15-yard line to cost the Crimson The 1998 Game...
...wall-hangings are more visceral than Richards's pale metal sculptures. Boutelle's "Ambivalent Passages" looks like an open gash with blood pouring forward in hues of petrified amber. But her most spectacular piece, "Ambivalent Passages III," seems to defy this straight sanguine categorization. The layers of cheesecloth, beeswax, shellac, oil bar, paint and rice paper that Boutelle uses in her art are here transformed into a composition reminiscent of Gustav Klimt's "Water Serpents," mermaids entangled in algae and veins, now in vivid carmine hues...
Initial heating of the phenol and formaldehyde (in the presence of an acid or base to get the reaction going) produced a shellac-like liquid good for coating surfaces like a varnish. Further heating turned the liquid into a pasty, gummier goo. And when Baekeland put this stuff into the bakelizer, he was rewarded with a hard, translucent, infinitely moldable substance. In a word: plastic...