Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silver lining for the artists and the museum will be the crowds that turn out to see what the fuss is about. "If I were the museum," says Mitchell Moss, a New York University urban expert whose family has a membership in the Brooklyn Museum, "I would send Giuliani a thank-you note...
...stuff." After months of cyber foreplay--saying at one point that "he was going to be very careful since he could go to jail"--Naughton arranged to meet the girl at the pier in Santa Monica, Calif. What he encountered there was a tiny woman in tan overalls, silver butterfly hair clips and a backpack. But she was, in fact, a cop working with the man who had impersonated the 13-year-old Lolita--special agent Bruce Applin, who is part of the FBI's Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement team. Naughton was arrested and charged with the federal crime...
...filmmakers should have used the time they devoted to excessive complication to solidify the characters and their respective motivations. The Minus Man would have the potential to be a mysterious thriller or an exciting slasher flick if Vann weren't one of the dullest murderers ever to grace the silver screen. His banality isn't due to poor acting--Wilson plays his role with flair. The problem is the filmmakers don't reveal enough--Vann, after two and a half hours of character exposition, is still frustratingly vague...
...ball Gel Impact 1.0mm ($2.49) gushes ink like a rollerball without bleeding through the page. A blue or black fountain-like line without all the pretension or nib sucking, imagine that! The Gel Impact has sent shockwaves through the pen design community with its ultra-modern silver thatched pattern. Lest you lose track of your ink usage, a clear window with incremental dots keeps tabs on your depletion. It's not a goopy gel or a fountain that floweth, it's just...
...SWEDISH SCIENTISTS A team from Uppsala University has reported the existence of bacteria that can manufacture minute quantities of silver. The discovery may lead to the production of new kinds of metal films and coatings...